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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011
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Innovation
Policy and the Economy Workshop
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Pierre Azoulay
and Jeff Furman, Organizers
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July 25, 2011
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Charles
Suite
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Royal
Sonesta Hotel
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40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
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PROGRAM
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Monday, July 25:
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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Naomi Hausman, Harvard University
Effects
of University Innovation on Local Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship
Discussant: Avi
Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
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9:50 am
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Ralf Martin, London School of Economics
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER
Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics
David Hemous, Harvard University
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and
NBER
Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Discussant: Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER
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10:40 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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Anup Malani, University
of Chicago and NBER
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER
Is Medical R&D Different? The Link
Between Input- and Output Markets
Discussant: Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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11:50 am
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Deepak Hegde, New York University
Bhaven Sampat, Columbia
University
The Political Economy of Publicly-Funded
Biomedical Research: Evidence from NIH Allocations for Rare Diseases
Discussant: Iain Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
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12:40 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 pm
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Dual Session: Back in the USSR
Ina Ganguli, Harvard University
Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When
Government R&D Funding Disappears
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George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
The
Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians
Discussant: Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
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2:40 pm
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Kevin Boudreau, London Business School
Karim Lakhani, Harvard
University
"Fit" Field Experimental Evidence on
Creative Worker Sorting on an Innovation Task
Discussant: Ulrike Malmendier, University of
California at Berkeley and NBER
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3:30 pm
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Break
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3:40 pm
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PANEL: Incentives for Innovation: Prizes
and other Non-Traditional Mechanisms
Panelists
Jack Hughes, TopCoder
Tom Kalil, Office of Science & Technology
Policy
Lee Stein, Prize Capital
Moderator
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School and NBER
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4:55 pm
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Adjourn
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