Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER hosted the annual Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy conference on May 3 in Washington, DC and online. Research Associates Benjamin Jones of Northwestern University and Josh Lerner of Harvard University organized the meeting, which was supported by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation grant #RG-202003-8269. Catherine Wolfram, the deputy assistant secretary for climate and energy economics at the US Department of the Treasury, delivered a keynote address. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, and Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Place-Based Productivity and Costs in Science"

* Daniel Hemel, University of Chicago, and Lisa L. Ouellette, Stanford University, "The Generic Drug Trilemma"

* Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER, and David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER, "Racial Inequality in Capital Access for Innovative Firms"

* Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts...