NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
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New Ideas about New Ideas
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March 10-11, 2006 |
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Richard Freeman and Bruce
Weinberg, Organizers |
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NBER |
1050 Massachusetts Avenue |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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PROGRAM |
Friday, March 10: |
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8:15 am |
Shuttle from Sonesta to NBER |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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Psychology Dean Keith Simonton, Chair |
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9:00 am |
Teresa Amabile, Harvard University |
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Sigal Barsade, University of Pennsylvania |
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Jennifer
Mueller, New York University |
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Barry Staw, UC, Berkeley |
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9:30 am |
Dean Keith Simonton, UC, Davis |
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10:00 am |
General Discussion |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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Scientific Labor Michael Darby, Chair |
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10:45 am |
Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER |
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Paying for Creativity: When Do Incentives Matter |
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11:15 am |
David Kaiser, MIT |
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Training Quantum
Mechanics: Enrollments and Epistemology in Modern Physics |
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11:45 am |
General Discussion |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch |
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Age and Creativity Richard Freeman, Chair |
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1:30 pm |
David Galenson, University of Chicago and NBER |
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2:00 pm |
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER |
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2:30 pm |
Bruce Weinberg, Ohio State University and NBER |
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Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER |
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Knowledge Accumulation, Revolutions, and Changes in
the Age of Scientific Creativity |
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3:00 pm |
General Discussion |
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3:30 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:30 pm |
Dinner Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Room |
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Speaker:
Gerald Holton, Harvard University |
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Introduction by David Kaiser, MIT |
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Saturday, March 11: |
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8:15 am |
Shuttle from Sonesta to NBER |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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Cognitive Neuro-Science of Creativity Mark
Jung-Beeman, Chair |
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9:00 am |
Mark Jung-Beeman, Northwestern University |
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Neural Substrates and Cognitive Mechanisms of the
Aha! Moment |
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9:30 am |
John Kounios, Drexel University |
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10:00 am |
Sohee Park, Vanderbilt University |
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Creativity and Psychosis-Proneness |
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10:30 am |
General Discussion |
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11:00 am |
Break |
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The Relationship between Commercial and
Non-Commercial Innovation Benjamin Jones, Chair |
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11:15 am |
Joshua Lerner, Harvard University and NBER |
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Parag Pathak, Harvard University |
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Jean Tirole, Universite des Science Sociales,
Toulouse |
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11:45 am |
Michael Darby and Lynne Zucker, UC, Los Angeles and
NBER |
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Creativity in Science
and in the Firm: How Discovering Scientists Transform Research and Commerce |
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Briefing Book Sociology Background paper |
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12:15 pm |
General Discussion |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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Discussion: Where do we go from Here? |
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Moderated by Daniel Goroff, Harvey Mudd College |
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2:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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3/1/06 |
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