Economics of Innovation and Science Policy lectures

Coordinated by GianCarlo Moschini
Pioneer Hi-Bred International Chair in Science and Technology Policy

March 30, 2006
Matt Mitchell, Department of Economics, University of Iowa
"Market Structure and the Direction of Technological Change"
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October 10, 2005
Robert Hunt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
"Matching and Learning in Cities: Urban Density and the Rate of Invention"
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October 3, 2005
Ashish Arora, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University
"R&D and the Patent Premium"
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November 1, 2004Miller Lecture (LAS)
Vincenzo Denicoló, University of Bologna (Italy)
"Innovation, Duplication, and the Contract Theory of Patents"
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October 25, 2004Fuller Lecture
Jim Anton, Duke University
"Attracting Skeptical Buyers"
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October 18, 2004
Talia Bar, Cornell University
"Defensive Publications in an R&D Race"
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October 11, 2004Miller Lecture (LAS)
Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University
"Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing in the Shadow of Patent Litigation"
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October 4, 2004Miller Lecture (LAS)
Peter Thompson, Florida International University
"Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers"
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December 8, 2003
Corinne Langinier, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
"Patents, Search of Prior Art and Revelation of Information"

December 1, 2003Miller Lecture
Greg Traxler, Department of Agricultural Economics, Auburn University
"Biotechnology in a Complete System of Genetic Improvement: Institutional Issues for Developing Country Access"
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November 17, 2003Miller Lecture
Bhaven Sampat, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan
"Private Parts: Patents and Academic Research in the Twentieth Century"
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November 10, 2003
Sergio Lence, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
"Welfare Impacts of Property Rights in the Seed Industry"
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November 3, 2003
Greg Graff, University of California-Berkeley
"The 'revealed' comparative advantages of public sector vs. private sector R&D in an analysis of agricultural biotechnology patents"
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October 27, 2003I.W. Arthur Memorial Lecture
Joel Mokyr, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
"Long-term Economic Growth and the History of Technology"
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October 17, 2003Miller Lecture
Joshua Lerner, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
"Cooperative Marketing Agreements Between Competitors: Evidence from Patent Pools"
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September 22, 2003Fuller Lecture
Suzanne Scotchmer, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley
"Procuring Knowledge"
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September 15, 2003
Mark D. Janis, University of Iowa College of Law
"Experimental Use and the Shape of Patent Rights for Plant Innovation"
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December 16, 2002
Claude Crampes, Gremaq-Cnrs and Idei, University of Toulouse (France)
"Copying and Software Pricing"
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December 9, 2002Fuller Lecture
Bronwyn Hall, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley
"Current Issues and Trends in the Economics of Patents"
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December 2, 2002Miller Lecture
Michele Boldrin, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
"Perfectly Competitive Innovation"
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November 18, 2002
Corinne Langinier, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
"Contributory Infringement and Network Innovation"
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November 11, 2002
Wallace Huffman, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
"Consumers’ Resistance to GM Foods: The Role of Information in an Uncertain Environment"
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November 4, 2002
Bhaven Sampat, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Changes in University Patent Quality After the Bayh-Dole Act: A Re-Assessment"
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October 28, 2002
Phil Pardey, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
"International Investments in and Spillovers of Agricultural R&D"
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October 21, 2002
Max Rothschild, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University
"The Role of Patenting in Animal Breeding and Genetics"
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October 18, 2002
Oscar Volij, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
"The Measurement of Intellectual Influence"
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October 14, 2002Miller Lecture
Scott Stern, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
"Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Economics of Cumulative Knowledge Hubs"
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October 7, 2002
Harvey Lapan, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
"Innovation and Trade with Endogenous Market Failure: The Case of Genetically Modified Products"
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September 30, 2002
Samuel Kortum, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
"Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation"
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September 24, 2002I.W. Arthur Memorial Lecture
Brian Wright, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley
"Dynamics of Patenting Research Tools and Their Products"
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November 14, 2000
Brian Wright, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley
"South-North Trade, Intellectual Property Jurisdictions, and Freedom to Operate in Agricultural Research on Staple Crops"
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