NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Location of Biopharmaceutical Activity Pre-Conference

 

Iain Cockburn and Matthew Slaughter, Organizers

 

July 20, 2007

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

 8:45 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:15 am

Introduction:

 

IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

 9:30 am

PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

 

ARIEL FISHMAN, Columbia University

 

Doctors, $$ and Drug Development: The Rise of For-Profit Experimental Medicine

 

 

10:00 am

ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

 

FABIO THIERS, MIT

 

Factors Affecting the Changing Global Location of Clinical Trials: A Survey

 

 

10:30 am

Beak

 

 

10:45 am

MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

 

JERRY THURSBY, Emory University

 

International R&D Location Decisions of Biopharma Firms: Survey Evidence

 

 

11:15 am

KIRA FABRIZIO and L.G. THOMAS, Emory University

 

Tacit Demand and Innovation in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

11:45 am

NICK ARGYRES, Boston University

 

ELIAS BRUEGMANN, Harvard University

 

JEFF FURMAN, Boston University and NBER

 

Post-Merger R&D Re-Organization in The Global Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

JUAN ALCACER, Harvard University

 

JOHN CANTWELL and MICHELLE GITTELMAN, Rutgers University

 

The Role of Licensing in the Globalization of Bio-Pharmaceuticals: An Analysis of the Geography of Drug Development and Clinical Trials

 

 

 1:45 pm

ASHISH ARORA, Carnegie Mellon University

 

LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

CHIRANTAN CHATTERJEE, Caregie Mellon University

 

Fundamental Patent Reform and the Private Returns to R&D – The Case of Indian Pharmaceuticals

 

 

 2:15 pm

KELLEY PORTER, Queens University

 

KJERSTEN BUNKER WHITTINGTON, Stanford University

 

JASON OWEN-SMITH, University of Michigan

 

WALTER W. POWELL, Stanford University

 

Which Secrets Need to Be in the Air?:  An Analysis of the Geographic Division of Labor in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

 

 

 2:45 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

MERCEDES DELGADO-GARCIA, Harvard University

 

MARGARET KYLE, London Business School and NBER

 

ANITA MCGAHAN, University of Toronto

 

How Liberalized International Trade Regulations Change the Location of Pharmaceutical Activities around the World

 

 

 3:30 pm

MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

 

PAMINA KOENIG, Université Paris X 

 

Domestic Regulatory Policy and the International Location of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

7/17/07