NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000

Innovation Policy and the Economy

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

1050 Massachusetts Ave.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 24, 2000

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

The Commercialization of University Research

9:00 AM JERRY THURSBY, Purdue University,

MARIE THURSBY, Purdue University & NBER

Commercial Activity in the Ivory Tower: Propensity and Productivity

9:40 AM LEE BRANSTETTER, UC, Davis & NBER

Measuring the Link between Academic Science and Industrial Innovation:

The Case of California's Research Universities

10:45 AM Break

Intellectual Property

11:15 AM DIETMAR HARHOFF and MARKUS REITZIG, University of Munich

Determinants of Opposition Against EPO Grants -

The Case of Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals

12:15 PM Lunch

R&D Program Evaluation

1:15 PM MICHAEL DARBY, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

MARYELLEN KELLEY, NIST

DAVID WAGUESPACK, UC, Los Angeles

ANDREW WANG, NIST

LYNNE ZUCKER, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Program Design Effects in the ATP Program:

Joint Venture or Single Participant and Firm/Project Success

2:15 PM Break

2:30 PM MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel Aviv University and NBER

R&D Policy in Israel: An Overview and Assessment

3:30 PM PANEL

Adjourn

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