NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000
Productivity
Science and R&D
Iain Cockburn and Adam Jaffe, Organizers
July 25 and 26, 2000
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
TUESDAY, JULY 25:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM LEO SVEIKAUSKAS, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Indirect R&D and Productivity Growth
and
R&D, Unmeasured Quality Change, and Productivity Growth
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM MICHAEL ORLANDO, Washington University
11:15 AM DOMINIQUE GUELLEC and BRUNO VAN POTTELSBERGH, OECD
The Impact of Public R&D Expenditure on Business R&D
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM SCOTT STERN, MIT and NBER
JOSHUA GANS, University of South Wales
DAVID HSU, MIT
When Does Start-up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM JENNY LANJOUW, Yale University and NBER
MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics
Characteristics of Patent Litigation: A Window on Competition
3:30 PM Adjourn
SI00 PRSS Program
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM EDWARD WOLFF, New York University and NBER
Skills and Changing Comparative Advantage
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT
Who Will Monitor the Monitors? Dynamics of Outsourcing in Drug Development
11:15 AM WESLEY COHEN, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
RICHARD NELSON, Columbia University
JOHN WALSH, University of Chicago at Chicago
Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S.
Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not) 12:15 PM Lunch 1:15 PM GILLES DURANTON, London School of Economics DIEGO PUGA, University of Toronto Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life Cycle of Products 2:15 PM Break 2:30 PM JARLE MOEN, Norwegian School of Economics Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers? 3:30 PM TOR JAKOB KLETTE, University of Oslo SAMUEL KORTUM, Boston University and NBER Birth, Innovation and Growth: The Evolution of a Population of Firms 4:30 PM Adjourn 6/27/00