NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Innovation
Policy and the Economy
Adam
Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern: Organizers
April
12, 2007
Grand
Hyatt
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
WESLEY COHEN,
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,
Public Policy toward
Patent Pools
(Joint
with JOSHUA
LERNER,
12:50 pm
Adjourn and Luncheon
Speaker:
EDWARD LAZEAR, Council of Economic Advisors and NBER
3/28/07