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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

 

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy Workshop

 

 

 

Pierre Azoulay and Jeff Furman, Organizers

 

 

 

July 25, 2011

 

 

 

Charles Suite

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

Monday, July 25:


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Naomi Hausman, Harvard University
Effects of University Innovation on Local Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship

Discussant: 
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER


9:50 am


Ralf Martin, London School of Economics
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER
Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics
David Hemous, Harvard University
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Discussant: Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University
and NBER

10:40 am

Break


11:00 am


Anup Malani, University of Chicago and NBER
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER
Is Medical R&D Different? The Link Between Input- and Output Markets

Discussant: Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


11:50 am


Deepak Hegde, New York University
Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University
The Political Economy of Publicly-Funded Biomedical Research: Evidence from NIH Allocations for Rare Diseases

Discussant: Iain Cockburn, Boston University
and NBER

12:40 pm

Lunch


1:30 pm


Dual Session:  Back in the USSR
Ina Ganguli, Harvard University
Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears




George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

Discussant: Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto
and NBER


2:40 pm


Kevin Boudreau, London Business School
Karim Lakhani, Harvard University
"Fit" Field Experimental Evidence on Creative Worker Sorting on an Innovation Task

Discussant: Ulrike Malmendier, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

3:30 pm

Break

3:40 pm







PANEL: Incentives for Innovation: Prizes and other Non-Traditional Mechanisms


Panelists
Jack Hughes, TopCoder
Tom Kalil, Office of Science & Technology Policy
Lee Stein, Prize Capital

Moderator
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School and NBER

4:55 pm

Adjourn