R&D Investment and Economic Growth (Conference: March 26-28, 1999)
Program
Friday March 26 |
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| 1:00-2:00 pm | Registration and Refreshments, Wells Fargo Room |
| 2:00-3:30 pm | Session 1: Technology and U.S. Economic Growth |
"Intermediaries in the Market for Technology in the United States, 1870-1920," Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (UCLA and NBER) Discussant: Roger Ransom (Economics, UC Riverside) "Sources of U.S. Economic Growth in a World of Ideas," Charles I. Jones (Economics, Stanford University) Discussant: Alexander J. Field (Economics, Santa Clara University) |
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| 3:45-5:30 pm | Panel: "The Process of Innovation" |
| David Zilberman (Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley), Annalee Saxenian (City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley), Bénédicte Callan (OECD), Gordon Rausser (Dean, College of Natural Resources , UC Berkeley) | |
| 6:00-7:30 pm | Reception, Bancroft Hotel |
Saturday March 27 |
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| 8:00-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast, Wells Fargo Room |
| 9:00-10:45 am | Session 2: Commercialization Policy and the University |
"Patenting and Licensing of University Inventions: Lessons from the History of Research Corporation," David C. Mowery (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley) and Bhaven N. Sampat (Columbia University) Discussant: Harry Scheiber (Boalt Law, UC Berkeley) "University Intellectual Property Management in the 20th Century and Beyond," Gary Matkin (Extension, UC Berkeley) "The Performance of Offices of Technology Transfer," David Zilberman (Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley) Discussant: Bénédicte Callan (OECD) |
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| 10:45 am-12:30 pm | Session 3: The Role of Intellectual Property |
| "Intellectual Property and Market Structure in the Biotechnology Industry," Gordon Rausser (College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley), Suzanne Scotchmer (Goldman Graduate School for Public Policy, UC Berkeley), Leo Simon (Dept Agricultural Economics, UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Economics, UCLA) "Natural Cycles of Imitation and Intellectual Property Infringements," Mark Carlson and Pawel Dyczewski (Economics, UC Berkeley) Discussant: Mark Siegler (Economics, Williams College) "Legal Monopoly: Patents and Antitrust Litigation," Zorina Kahn (Economics, Bowdoin College) Discussant: Howard Shelanski (Boalt Law, UC Berkeley, Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors) |
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| 12:30-1:45 pm | Lunch, Bancroft Hotel |
| 12:30-2:30 pm | All-UC in Economic History Steering Committee Meeting, Bancroft Hotel |
| 2:30-4:00 pm | Session 4: California R&D and Economic Growth |
"Implication of Aggregate Trends in Support and Performance of R&D in California on Patent Activity," Linda Cohen and Paroma Sanyal (Economics, UC Irvine) "California Public Education and the State’s Preeminence in R&D," Susan B. Carter, Mathew Sobek, and Richard Sutch (Economics, UC Riverside) Discussant: Clair Brown (Economics and Center for Work, Technology and Society, UC Berkeley) |
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| 4:00-5:30 pm | Panel: The Role of Technological Innovation in US 20th-Century Economic Growth |
| David Mowery (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley), Paul Romer (Economics, Stanford), Richard Sutch (Economics and Center for Social and Economic Policy, UC Riverside) | |
| 6:30-7:30 pm | Reception, Bancroft Hotel |
| 7:30 pm- | Dinner, Bancroft Hotel |
| Speaker: Tom Kiley (former general counsel and vice president for coporate development, Genentech, Inc.) "Patent Confusion: Cooperation and Competition among Universities and Biotechnology Companies" | |
Sunday March 28 |
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| 8:00-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast, Wells Fargo Room |
| 9:00-10:30 am | Session 5: Federal R&D and Aerospace |
"Policy and Practice: Patenting NASA Inventions," Sylvia Katherine Kraemer (Director of Policy Development – NASA) "The Organizational Roots of american Economic Competitiveness in High Technology," Stephen B. Johnson (Department of Space Studies, University of North Dakota) Discussant: Michael Dardia (Public Policy Institute of California) |
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| 10:45 am-12:15 pm | Session 6: Agricultural Productivity |
"The Diffusion of Agricultural Technology in Brazilian amazonia," Joshua Skov (Economics, UC Berkeley) "Spatial Patterns of Post-War Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture," Albert K.A. Acquaye, Julian M. Alston and Philip G. Pardey (Economics , UC Davis) Discusssant: Brian Wright (Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley) "Getting Foresters into the Woods: Emanuel Fritz and the Practice of Forestry in California," Josh Ashenmiller (History, UC Santa Barbara) Discussant: Irma Adelman (Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley) |
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