Innovation policy and the economy.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER's fifteenth annual Conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy took place in Washington on April 8, 2014. The conference was organized by Faculty Research Fellow William Kerr and Research Associate Josh Lerner of the Harvard Business School, and Research Associate Scott Stern of MIT. They chose these papers to discuss:

* George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER, and Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame, "How High-Skill Immigration Affects Science: Evidence from the Collapse of the USSR"

* John Bound, University of Michigan and NBER; Murat Demirci, University of Virginia; Gaurav Khanna, University of Michigan; and Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER, "Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs"

* Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER; Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano; and Giuseppe...