NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Pierre Azoulay and Jeff Furman, Organizers

 

July 26, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles Suite AB

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 

MONDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

 

Where Are The Health Care Entrepreneurs? The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care

 

 

 

Discussant: David Meltzer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

9:50 am

Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University

 

Institutional Innovation or Institutional Imitation? The Impacts of TRIPs on India’s Patent Law and Practice

 

 

 

Discussant:  Margaret Kyle, Toulouse School of Economics and NBER

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Prithwiraj Choudhury, University of Pennsylvania

 

Tarun Khanna, Harvard University

 

Privatization of Innovation: Evidence from India’s State Owned Laboratories

 

 

 

Discussant: Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER

 

 

11:50 am

Joshua Gans, Melbourne Business School

 

Fiona Murray and Scott Stern, MIT and NBER

 

Contracting over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: IP Protection and Academic Publication

 

 

 

Discussant:  E. Glen Weyl, Harvard University

 

 

12:40 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:40 pm

Patrick Gaule, MIT

 

Mario Piacentini, University of Geneva

 

Chinese graduate students and US scientific productivity

 

 

 

Discussant:  Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Ryan Lampe, DePaul University

 

Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER

 

Patent Pools and the Direction of Technical Change: Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:  Michael Meurer, Boston University

 

 

3:20 pm

Break

 

 

3:35 pm

Panel: Broadband Competition Policy and Innovation

 

Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and NBER (moderator)

 

Jonathan Baker, American University

 

Scott Wallsten, Stanford University

 

Lawrence White, New York University (slides)

 

 

4:50 pm

Adjourn