The NBER's Innovation Policy and the Economy Conference
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. Innovation Policy and the Economy
Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern: Organizers
April 12, 2007
Grand Hyatt Washington 1000 H Street Washington, DC
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am WESLEY COHEN, Duke University and NBER
JOHN WALSH, University of Illinois at Chicago
Property Rights and Academic Science
9:40 am ROBERT LITAN and LESA MITCHELL, The Kauffman Foundation
Commercializing University Innovations: A Better Way
10:20 am Break
10:35 am SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER
Entrepreneurship and the Great Internet Experiment
11:15 am Break
11:30 am CARL SHAPIRO, UC, Berkeley
Antitrust and Patent Litigation
12:10 pm JEAN TIROLE, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Toulouse
Public Policy toward Patent Pools
(Joint with JOSHUA LERNER, Harvard University and NBER)
12:50 pm Adjourn and Luncheon
Speaker: EDWARD LAZEAR, Council of Economic Advisors and NBER
For the latest version of the program, see [1]