NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Location of Biopharmaceutical Activity Pre-Conference

Iain Cockburn and Matthew Slaughter, Organizers

July 20, 2007

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, JULY 20:

8:45 am Coffee and Pastries

9:15 am Introduction:

IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

9:30 am PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

ARIEL FISHMAN, Columbia University

Doctors, Dollars and Drug Development: The Effect of Managed Care on the Clinical Trials Industry

10:00 am ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

FABIO THIERS, MIT

Factors Affecting the Changing Global Location of Clinical Trials: A Survey

10:30 am Beak

10:45 am MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

JERRY THURSBY, Emory University

International R&D Location Decisions of Biopharma Firms: Survey Evidence

11:15 am KIRA FABRIZIO and L.G. THOMAS, Emory University

Tacit Demand and Innovation in Pharmaceuticals

11:45 am NICK ARGYRES, Boston University

JEFF FURMAN, Boston University and NBER

Post-Merger R&D Re-Organization in The Global Pharmaceutical Industry

12:15 pm Lunch

1:15 pm JUAN ALCACER, Harvard University

JOHN CANTWELL and MICHELLE GITTELMAN, Rutgers University The Role of Licensing in the Globalization of Bio-Pharmaceuticals:

An Analysis of the Geography of Drug Development and Clinical Trials

1:45 pm ASHISH ARORA, Carnegie Mellon University

LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

Getting in the Game: The Impact of Stronger Intellectual Property Rights on the Development of Research-Driven Pharmaceutical Industries in India and South Korea

2:15 pm KELLEY PORTER, Queens University

KJERSTEN BUNKER WHITTINGTON, Stanford University

JASON OWEN-SMITH, University of Michigan

WALTER W. POWELL, Stanford University

Which Secrets Need to Be in the Air?: An Analysis of the Geographic Division of Labor in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

2:45 pm Break

3:00 pm MERCEDES DELGADO-GARCIA, Harvard University

MARGARET KYLE, London Business School and NBER

ANITA MCGAHAN, University of Toronto

How Liberalized International Trade Regulations Change the Location of Pharmaceutical Activities around the World

3:30 pm MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

PAMINA KOENIG, Université Paris X

Domestic Regulatory Policy and the International Location of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

4:00 pm Adjourn

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