Dean Wonjoon Kim co-hosts the 8th AIEA-NBER Conference on innovation and entrepreneurship. The AIEA-NBER Conference Series is a collaboration between the Asian Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (AIEA) and the National Bureau of Economic research (NBER). The 8th AIEA-NBER conference is to be ONLINE hosted by the School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University on August 24^th -25^th, 2020. The conference series focuses on research in the economics and management of innovation and entrepreneurship, highlights the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in shaping economic prosperity, and provides a forum bringing together leading scholars from both the US and Asia to enhance collaboration within our research community.

 

 

Session #1: Shanghai Time: August 25th, 2020, Tuesday Morning (8-10am) [Boston Time: August 24, Monday night 8-10 pm]

7:30-7:45 AM:    Registration & Waiting                                                                                 

7:45-8:00 AM:   Opening remarks: Josh Lerner (Harvard & NBER), Wonjoon Kim (KAIST & AIEA), Hanming Fang (UPenn & ShanghaiTech Univ. & NBER), Jefferey Furman (Boston Univ. & NBER)

                                                                               

8:00-8:30 Michael Kremer (Nobel Laureate, Harvard University, Dept. Economics, and NBER)

Title: Covid-19 Vaccines

Discussant: Scott Stern (MIT Sloan School of Management and NBER)

 

8:30-9:00 Wonjoon Kim (KAIST & AIEA) and Ke Feng (Hunan University)    

Does Trade Liberalization induce Innovation?  China’s WTO Accession and Novel knowledge Recombination

Discussant: Erica Fuchs (Carnegie Mellon University)

                                       

9:00-9:30 Katie Moon (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Information Transparency in Drug Development:  Evidence from Mandatory Disclosure of Clinical Trials

Discussant: Josh Krieger (Harvard Business School)

 

9:30-10:00 David Y. Yang (Harvard University, Dept. Economics)

Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China                         

Discussant: Ivan Png (National University of Singapore)

 

10:00-10:05 Closing      

                                                                                                                                                                            

Session # 2: Shanghai Time: 25th August, Tuesday Night (8-10pm) [Boston Time: August 25 morning 8-10am]                          

7:30-7:55 PM     Registration & Waiting                                                                                 

7:55-8:00 PM    Session Introduction     

                                                                               

8:00-8:30 Myriam Mariani (Bocconi University & AIEA)

It Takes a Family to Raise an Inventor, Unless She is a Girl                       

Discussant: Waverly Ding (University of Maryland)

 

8:30-9:00 Hanyi Tao (ShanghaiTech Univ. School of Entrepreneurship and Management)   

An Anatomy of the Quality of Patents: China vs. US                    

Discussant: Manuel Trajtenberg (Tel Aviv University)

 

9:00-9:30 Guangwei Li (ShanghaiTech Univ. School of Entrepreneurship and Management)

Picking Winners? Government Subsidies and Firm Productivity in China              

Discussant: Sabrina Howell (New York University)

 

9:30-10:00 Hong Luo (Harvard Business School)

When does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants        

Discussant: Ariel D. Stern (Harvard Business School)

 

10:00-10:10 Closing & The 9th AIEA-NBER Introduction              

Scott Stern (MIT & NBER), Po-Hsuan Hsu (National Tsinghua University & AIEA)  

Program Committee

Hanming Fang, Univ. of Pennsylvania & ShanghaiTech Univ. and NBER & AIEA (Chair)

Jeffrey Furman, Boston University and NBER (Chair)

Wonjoon Kim, KAIST and AIEA (Chair)

Hong Luo, HBS

Xudong Gao, Tsinghua University and AIEA

Po-Hsuan Hsu, University of Hong Kong and AIEA

Kazuyuki Motohashi, University of Tokyo and AIEA

Willem Smit, Asia School of Business and AIEA

Ariel Dora Stern, HBS and NBER

Yanbo Wang, National University of Singapore and AIEA

 

Organizers

School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM), ShanghaiTech University

Asia Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (AIEA)

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

 

Lead Sponsors

School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM), ShanghaiTech University

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

KAIST, Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy (CISP)

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

 

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The Asian Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (AIEA) - The purpose of the Asian Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (AIEA) is to advance the economic growth and quality of life in Asian countries by stimulating and disseminating innovation in diverse areas of Asian society. In order to achieve this goal, the AIEA builds strong partnerships and promotes cooperation among participant countries by: (1) building the AIEA as a platform for coordinating activities; (2) preparing funds for various activities and programs which stimulate innovation; and (3) enhancing collaboration across universities, governments, and companies.

Learn more at http://aiea-ie.org  

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - The NBER is the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization. Twenty-two Nobel Prize winners in Economics and thirteen past chairs of the President's Council of Economic Advisers have been researchers at the NBER. The more than 1,100 professors of economics and business now teaching at colleges and universities in North America who are NBER researchers are the leading scholars in their fields. These Bureau associates concentrate on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the economic effects of public policies, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.

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