Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy

8:00 - 8:55

Registration/Coffee

8:55 - 9:15

Welcome/Conference Goals

William Wulf, National Academy of Engineering
Brian Kahin, University of Michigan
Dominique Foray, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

9:15 - 10:30

Knowledge communities and networks of knowledge

Chair: David Nelson, Interagency Working Group on IT R&D
Patrick Cohendet, Louis Pasteur University
Tom Schuller, OECD
John King, University of Michigan

10:45 - 12:00

Emerging infrastructure for distributed learning and innovation

Chair: Michael Marron, NIH/NCRR
Kurt Larsen, OECD
Dan Atkins, University of Michigan
Peter Freeman, National Science Foundation

12:00 - 12:55

Lunch

12:55 - 1:15

Keynote

Berglind Ásgeirsdóttir, Deputy Secretary General, OECD

1:15 - 2:45

Knowledge and place: proximity, mobility, clusters, and institutions

Chair: Rob Atkinson, Progressive Policy Institute
Jan Fagerberg, University of Oslo
Andrew Wyckoff, OECD
Maryann Feldman, University of Toronto
Jason Owen-Smith, University of Michigan

3:00 - 4:15

Measuring knowledge and its economic effects

Chair: Barbara Fraumeni, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Fred Gault, Statistics Canada
Jacques Mairesse, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique
Reinhilde Veugelers, European Commision DG FIN

4:30 - 5:45

Learning by doing, interacting, and experimenting: users as innovators

Chair: Richard Lempert, National Science Foundation
Bengt-Åke Lundvall, University of Aalborg
Eric von Hippel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stefan Thomke, Harvard Business School

8:00 - 8:55

Registration/Coffee

8:55 - 9:15

Keynote

The Honorable David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States

9:15 - 10:30

Channeling knowledge: the changing role of research institutions

Chair: Daniel Malkin, OECD
Robin Cowan, University of Maastricht
Paul A. David, Stanford University/Oxford University
David Mowery, University of California / Harvard Business School / NBER

10:45 - 12:15

Mixed models of cooperation and control

Chair: Deborah Wince-Smith, Council on Competitiveness
Iain Cockburn, Boston University / NBER
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
Arti Rai, Duke University
Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick

12:15 - 1:15

Lunch

1:15 - 2:30

Architecting knowledge: platforms, modularity, and coordination

Chair: Andrew Sors, DG Research
Carliss Baldwin, Harvard Business School
W.E. Steinmueller, University of Sussex

2:45 - 4:00

Fences and thickets: benefits and costs of private controls

Chair: Susan DeSanti, Federal Trade Commission
Dominique Guellec, European Patent Office
Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University
Dietmar Harhoff, University of Munich

4:15 - 5:30

Policy Roundtable: Advancing Knowledge in the Public Sector

Chair: Laurence Prusak, Babson College
Andrew Sors, DG Research
Carol Corrado, Federal Reserve Board
Carl Dahlman, World Bank
Richard Lempert, National Science Foundation