NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002

Innovation Policy and the Economy

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 22, 2002

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 22:

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM FRANK LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Does Misery Love Company? Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets Before and After the Orphan Drug Act

Discussant: TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER

10:00 AM AMY FINKELSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

Health Policy and Technological Change:

Evidence from the Vaccine Industry

Discussant: PIERRE AZOULAY, Columbia University

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM GIOVANNI PERI, UC, Davis

Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Externalities

Discussant: MARYANN FELDMAN, Johns Hopkins University

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO, MIT and NBER

BRIAN SILVERMAN, University of Toronto

Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying

Discussant: BHAVIN SAMPAT, Georgia Institute of Technology

2:15 PM Break

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2:30 PM JONATHAN LEVIN, Stanford University

RICHARD LEVIN, Yale University

Patent Oppositions

Discussant: BRIAN WRIGHT, UC, Berkeley

3:30 PM Break

3:45 PM Panel Discussion:

R&D, Innovation and Defense/Security Policy in the Anti-terrorist Era

CHAIR, MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

ROGER NOLL, Stanford University

JOHN ALIC, Johns Hopkins University

MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel Aviv University and NBER

4:45 PM Adjourn

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