NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Summer Institute 2007

 

Intellectual Property Policy and Innovation

 

Ben Jones and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

July 24, 2007

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

Patents at the University-Industry Interface

 

 

 9:00 am

RICHARD JENSEN, University of Notre Dame

 

JERRY THURSBY, Emory University

 

MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

 

In or Out:  Faculty Research and Consulting

 

 

 

SHARON BELENZON, Oxford University

 

MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics

 

Harnessing Success:  Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance

 

 

 

Discussants: ARVIDS ZIEDONIS, University of Michigan

 

                       PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

CARLOS SERRANO, University of Toronto and NBER

 

The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents

 

 

 

Discussant:  IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

MIKE SCHERER, Harvard University

 

The Political Economy of Patent Policy Reform in the United States

 

 

 

Discussant: DAVID MOWERY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

  2:00 pm

Break

 

 

The Economics of Patent Litigation

 

 

  2:30 pm

JAMES BESSEN and MICHAEL MEURER, Boston University

 

The Private Costs of Patent Litigation

 

 

 

Discussant:  MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

 

 

 3:30 pm

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

Trolls on State Street? The Litigation of Financial Patents, 1976-2005

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROSEMARIE ZIEDONIS, University of Michigan

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/14/07