NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern: Organizers

 

April 19, 2005

 

National Press Club

529 14th Street

Washington, DC

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 8:15 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

 

 8:45 a.m.

DENNIS YAO, Harvard University

 

The Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights

 

(Joint with JAMES ANTON and HILLARY GREENE)

 

 

 9:25 a.m.

ADAM JAFFE, Brandeis University and NBER

 

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

Innovation and its Discontents

 

 

10:05 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:20 a.m.

FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER

 

Consumer Benefit from Use of the Internet

 

 

11:00 a.m.

ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

 

Opportunities for Improving the Drug Development Process:  Results from a Survey of Industry and the FDA

 

(Joint with ADRIAN GOTTSCHALK and MATTHEW STROBECK)

 

 

11:40 a.m.

Break

   

 

11:55 a.m.

RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten US Economic Leadership?

 

 

12:35 p.m.

RICHARD GILBERT, UC, Berkeley

 

Market Structure and Innovation – What Do We Know?

 

 

 1:15 p.m.

Luncheon

 

Speaker: RAGHURAM RAJAN, International Monetary Fund and NBER

 

 

 

 

 

 

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