NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern: Organizers

 

April 12, 2007

 

Grand Hyatt Washington

1000 H Street

Washington, DC

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          WESLEY COHEN, Duke University and NBER

                        JOHN WALSH, Georgia Institute of Technology

                        Real Impediments to Academic Biomedical Research

  

 9:40 am          ROBERT LITAN, LESA MITCHELL and E.J. REEDY,

                        Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

                        Commercializing University Innovations: A Better Way

 

10:20 am         Break

 

10:35 am         SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER

                        Economic Experiments and Industry Know-How in Internet Access Markets

 

11:15 am         Break

 

11:30 am         CARL SHAPIRO, UC, Berkeley

                        Patent Reform: Aligning Reward and Contribution

 

12:10 pm         JEAN TIROLE, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Toulouse

                        Public Policy toward Patent Pools

                        (Joint with JOSHUA LERNER, Harvard University and NBER)

 

12:50 pm         Adjourn and Luncheon

Speaker: EDWARD LAZEAR, Council of Economic Advisors and NBER

                                   

           

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