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Productivity Program Meeting |
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Ajay Agrawal and Ben Jones, Organizers |
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December 4,
2009 |
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Royal
Sonesta Hotel |
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PRELIMINARY
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3: |
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6:00 pm Group Dinner – Bambara
Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe, (across
the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) |
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4: |
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8:30
am Continental Breakfast |
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9:00
am PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT
and NBER |
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JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, |
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GUSTAVO MANSO, MIT |
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Incentives
and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences |
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Discussant:
JERRY THURSBY,
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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10:00
am TIM SIMCOE, |
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Discussant: BRONWYN
HALL, UC, |
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11:00 am Break |
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11:15 am ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT and NBER |
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LYNN WU, MIT |
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Discussant: LU HAN, University of Toronto |
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12:15
pm Lunch |
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1:15
pm ALEX OETTL, Georgia
Institute of Technology |
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Productivity
and Helpfulness: Implications of a New Taxonomy for Star Scientists |
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Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and
NBER |
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2:15 pm Break |
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2:30
pm YURIY GORODNICHENKO, UC,
Berkeley and NBER |
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MONIKA SCHNITZER, University of Munich |
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Financial
Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up |
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Discussant: BILL KERR, |
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3:30 pm HEIDI WILLIAMS, |
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Intellectual Property
Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome |
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Discussant: IAIN COCKBURN, |
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4:30 pm Adjourn |
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