NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Summer Institute 2010

 

Intellectual Property Policy and Innovation

 

Ben Jones and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

July 28, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles Suite B

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

DIETMAR HARHOFF, Ludwig Maximilians University

 

 

GEORG VON GRAEVENITZ, Ludwig Maximilians University

 

 

STEFAN WAGNER, Ludwig Maximilians University

 

 

Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity

 

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

JOHN ALLISON, University of Texas

 

 

MARK LEMLEY, Stanford University

 

 

JOSHUA WALKER, LexMachina Inc.

 

 

Patent Quality and Risk Aversion among Repeat Patent Litigants

 

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  ALBERTO GALASSO, University of Toronto

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

JOSHUA GANS, University of Melbourne

 

 

Negotiating for the Market

 

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  DENNIS YAO, Harvard University

 

 

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

MATT MARX, MIT

 

 

JASJIT SINGH, INSEAD

 

 

LEE FLEMING, Harvard University

 

 

Regional Disadvantage?  Non-Compete Agreements and Brain Drain

 

 

 

 

 

Discussant: IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

3:00 pm

ASHISH ARORA, Duke University and NBER

 

 

SHARON BELENZON, Duke University

 

 

LUIS RIOS, Duke University

 

 

Organization of Intellectual Property Rights Management and Firm Performance

 

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  THOMAS HUBBARD, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

4:30 pm

Feldstein Lecture

 

 

 

 

6:30 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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