Benjamin Jones, Heidi Williams Leading Innovation Policy Working Group.

• Author: Jones, Benjamin
• Position: NBER News

Benjamin Jones and Heidi Williams are the new codirectors of the NBER Innovation Policy Working Group. Jones is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Williams is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research. They succeed Scott Stern, the David Sarnoff Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management, who, along with Adam Jaffe of Brandeis University and Josh Lerner of the Harvard Business School, launched the working group over two decades ago.

The new...