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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

April 14, 2015

 

National Press Club

529 14th Street, NW

Washington, DC

 

PROGRAM

 

 

8:15 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 am

Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Opening Keynote

9:25 am

Karim Lakhani, Harvard University

Innovation Field Experiments:  Empirical Insights and Policy Implications from Organizing Innovation Contests

10:00 am

Break 

 

 

10:15 am

Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER

 

Accelerating Entrepreneurs and Ecosystems: The Seed Accelerator Model

 

10:50 am

Ramana Nanda, Harvard University and NBER

Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Harvard University

Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation

 

11:25 am

Break

 

 

11:45 am

Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from Health Care Markets

 

12:20 pm

 

Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER

 

Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

Patent Assertions:  Are We Any Closer to the Aligning Reward to Contribution?

 

 

1:00 pm

Luncheon

 

 

 

Luncheon Speaker

Nancy Rose, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis,

US Department of Justice