Innovation Information Initiative Technical Working Group Meeting Organized by Adam B. Jaffe Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation December 3-4, 2021 Royal Sonesta Hotel and Zoom
	Friday, December 3
4:00 pm	Welcome and Introductions Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
4:15 pm	Text Analysis
	The Rise of Process Claims: Evidence from a Century of U.S. Patents Bernhard Ganglmair, ZEW Mannheim W. Keith Robinson, Wake Forest Univesity Michael Seeligson, Southern Methodist University
	Modeling Patent Clarity Jonathan Ashtor, Yeshiva University
	Technology Differentiation and Firm Performance Sam Arts, KU Leuven Bruno Cassiman, IESE Jianan Hou, KU Leuven
5:30 pm	Building a Replacement for the Microsoft Academic Graph
	Introducing OpenAlex Heather Piwowar, OurResearch Jason Priem, OurResearch
6:00 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner
	Saturday, December 4
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Prototype Innovation Data Portal Agnes Cameron, Knowledge Futures Group
9:30 am	Firms
	Matching Firm and Employee Data Tania Babina, Columbia University
	Matching Patent Assignees to Startups Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER Michael Ewens, California Institute of Technology and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Competition
	Intellectual Property Theft Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER Lia Sheer, Tel-Aviv University
	U.S. Entrepreneurship over the Long-run: New Data and Approaches to Measurement Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER Jorge Guzman, Columbia University Innessa Colaiacovo, Harvard Business School
11:45 am	Patent-Paper Pairs Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch and Adjourn

Participants

Tania Babina, Columbia University M. Diane Burton, Cornell University Agnes Cameron, Knowledge Futures Group Laurie Ciaramella, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Florian Ederer, Yale University Jie Fang, University of Toronto Jorge Guzman, Columbia University Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Martina Iori, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER

Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University Honggi Lee, University of New Hampshire Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER Nicholas Pairolero, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Felix Poege, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Mike Scherer, Harvard University Neil Smalheiser, University of Illinois at Chicago Lucy Xiaolu Wang, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Max Planck Institute-Innovation Ian Wetherbee, Google Deyun Yin, World Intellectual Property Organization