NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Productivity Workshop
R&D, Strategy and Organizations
Rebecca Henderson and Adam Jaffe, Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 25, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM GARY JEFFERSON and BAI HUAMAO, Brandeis University
GUAN ZIAOJING and YU XIAOYUN, National Bureau of Statistics, ChinaR&D
Performance in China's Large and Medium-Size Enterprise Sector Discussant: JACQUES MAIRESSE, INSEE and NBER 10:00 AM PETER KLIBANOFF and SHARON NOVAK, Northwestern University Contracting, Value, and Complexity in Automotive Outsourcing Decisions Discussant: GEORGE BAKER, Harvard University and NBER 11:00 AM Break 11:15 AM PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT The Many Faces of Outsourcing: Adjustment Costs, Transaction Costs, and Governance Spillovers Discussant: THOMAS HUBBARD, University of Chicago and NBER 12:15 PM Lunch 1:15 PM JARLE MOEN, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration How Destructive is Creative Destruction? The Value of Displaced R&D Capital in Norwegian IT Industry Discussant: DIANE BURTON, MIT SI01 PRSS program page two 2:15 PM Break 2:30 PM DARREN FILSON and ROSA MORALES, Claremont Graduate University Overlapping Strategic Alliances in the Biotechnology Industry Discussant: BENJAMIN GOMES-CASSERES, Brandeis University 3:30 PM Break 3:45 PM ASHISH ARORA, Carnegie Mellon ALFONSO GAMBARDELLA, Sant"Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa FABIO PAMMOLLI and MASSIMO RICCABONI, University of Siena The Nature and Extent of the Market for Technology in Biopharmaceuticals Discussant: ROBERT GIBBONS, MIT and NBER 4:45 PM Adjourn 7/3/01