Innovation policy and the economy.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER's eleventh annual Conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy took place in Washington on April 20. The conference was organized by NBER Research Associates Joshua Lerner of Harvard University and Scott Stern of Northwestern University. The following papers were discussed:

* David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER, "Where are the Health Care Entrepreneurs ? The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care"

* Raymond Fisman, Columbia University and NBER, and Eric Werker, Harvard Business School, "Innovations in Governance"

* Joshua S. Gans, University of Melbourne, "When is Static Analysis a Sufficient Proxy for Dynamic...