Innovation Policy and the Economy.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER's 16th annual Innovation Policy and the Economy conference took place in Washington on April 14. The conference was organized by Research Associates Scott Stern of MIT and Josh Lernet of Harvard University. These papers were discussed:

* Karim Lakhani, Harvard University, and Kevin J. Boudreau, London Business School, "Innovation Field Experiments: Empirical Insights and Policy Implications from Organizing Innovation Contests"

* Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER, "Accelerating Entrepreneurs and Ecosystems: The Seed Accelerator Model"

* Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Harvard University and NBER, "Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation" (NBER Working Paper No. 21278)

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