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

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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



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