Innovation Information Initiative.

The NBER's Innovation Information Initiative convened December 6-7 in Cambridge. Research Associates Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University, Bronwyn H. Hall of University of California, Berkeley, and Bhaven N. Sampat of Columbia University were joined by Osmat Azzam Jefferson of Queensland University of Technology, Samuel J. Klein of MIT, and Matt Marx of Boston University in organizing the meeting, which was sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The following researchers made presentations about existing or prospective data-creation projects and opportunities:

* Gaetan de Rassenfosse, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL), "Linking Products to Patents"

* Jeffrey M. Kuhn, University of North Carolina, "Applications of Textual Similarity to Measure Construction and Evaluation"

* Deyun Yin, World Intellectual Property Organization, "Challenges and Solutions in the Construction of Chinese Patent Database"

* Ashish Arora and Sharon Belenzon, Duke University and NBER, and Lia Sheer, Duke University, "The Role of...