NBER Summer Institute 2018: Innovation

Last week I was a discussant at the Innovation section of the 2018 NBER Summer Institute (full schedule here), which I highly recommend to scholars interested in the economics of innovation. The quality of the papers and the discussion was pretty uniformly high. There were a few examples of the insularity of economics, such as remarks about topics that "no one has studied" that have been studied by legal scholars, but I think this just illustrates the benefits of having scholars familiar with different literatures at disciplinary conferences.Here are links and brief summaries of the innovation-related papers. (There was also a great panel discussion on gender and academic credit, which I might post about separately at some point.)Janet Freilich, Prophetic Patents – This was the paper I was a discussant for, and I'll devote a stand-alone post to it soon, so for now I'll just note that it does a great job highlighting the problem of fictitious data in…

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