Innovation policy and the economy.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER's sixth annual conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy took place in Washington on April 19. The conference was organized by NBER Research Associates Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University, Joshua Lerner of Harvard University, and Scott Stern of Northwestern University. The following papers were discussed:

Dennis A. Yao, James J. Anton, and Hillary J. Greene, Harvard University, "The Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights"

Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner, "Innovation and its Discontents"

Fiona Scott Morton, NBER and Yale University, "Consumer Benefit from Use of the Internet"

Ernst Berndt, NBER and MIT, and Adrian Gottschalk and Matthew W. Strobeck, MIT...