Innovation Policy and the Economy.

• Position: Conferences

The 2018 Innovation Policy and the Economy Conference took place on April 17 in Washington, DC. Research Associates Josh Lerner of Harvard University and Scott Stern of MIT organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan; Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER; Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University and NBER; and Ariel Dora Stern, Harvard University, "Precision Medicine and the Orphan Drug Act"

* Pian Shu, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Claudia Steinwender, MIT and NBER, "Innovating in a Global Economy"

* Joshua Gans, Ajay K. Agrawal, and Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence"

* Pierre Azoulay, MIT and NBER; Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kearney, MIT; and Anna...