NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Innovation Policy and the Economy

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern: Organizers

April 15, 2003

National Press Club

529 14th Street

Washington, DC

PROGRAM

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel Aviv University and NBER

Crafting Defense R&D Policy in the Anti-Terrorist Era

9:45 AM ADAM JAFFE, Brandeis University and NBER

RICHARD NEWELL, Resources for the Future

ROBERT STAVINS, Harvard University

Technology Policy for Energy and the Environment

10:25 AM Break

10:40 AM KATHRYN SHAW, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

The Human Resources Revolution: Is it a Productivity Driver?

11:20 AM Break

11:30 AM BRONWYN HALL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition

12:10 PM JEREMY BULOW, Stanford University and NBER

The Gaming of Pharmaceutical Patents

1:00 PM Luncheon

Speaker: R. GLENN HUBBARD, Council of Economic Advisers and NBER

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