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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Economics of Intellectual Property Policy and Innovation Workshop

 

Scott Stern, Organizer

 

July 27, 2011

 

Hotel Marlowe

25 Edwin H. Land Blvd

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 27:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Michael Roach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Wesley Cohen, Duke University and NBER

 

Lens or Prism?  A Comparative Assessment of Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research

 

 

 

Discussant: Lee Fleming, Harvard University

 

 

10:00 am

Neil Thompson, University of California at Berkeley

 

David Mowery, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

Arvids Ziedonis, University of Oregon

 

Patents, Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) and the Flow of Scientific Knowledge

 

 

 

Discussant: Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Kamran Bilir, Stanford University

 

Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and the Global Sourcing Decisions of US Multinationals

 

 

 

Discussant: Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard University and NBER

 

Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas

 

The Impact of File Sharing on Movies

 

 

 

Discussant: Joshua Gans, University of Toronto

 

 

2:30 pm

Lee G. Branstteter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

Chirantan Chatterjee, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Matthew Higgins, Georgia Tech

 

Regulation and Welfare:  Evidence from Paragraph IV Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

 

Discussant: Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER

 

Joerg Ohmstedt, Cornell University

 

Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Patents and Inventive Output: Evidence from Hybrid Corn

 

 

Discussant: Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

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