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ESRC-LBS-CEPR-FUQUA Conference on Public Policies for Innovation
Organizers: Daniel P. Gross (Duke Fuqua) and Paolo Surico (London Business School)
19-20 March 2026
London Business School
Ratcliffe Building
Lecture Theatre 10
AGENDA
Thursday, 19 March
8:30+
Registration
8:50
Opening remarks: Surgei Guriev (Dean, London Business School)
9:00
Session: Industrial Policy
Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector
Giulia Lo Forte (Federal Reserve Board)
Ray of Hope? Solar power in China
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics, CEPR, and NBER)
10:20
Tea and coffee
10:40
Session: Industry Dynamics
Born Different: Entrepreneurship through Inventor Mobility, Innovation, and Growth
Salomé Baslandze (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Lost in Transition: Financial Barriers to Green Growth
Maarten De Ridder (London School of Economics and CEPR)
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Policy Panel: Microeconomic Policies and Macroeconomic Growth
Featuring:
David Miles (UK Office for Budget Responsibility)
Devrim Demirel (US Congressional Budget Office)
Doug Elmendorf (Harvard University and NBER; former Director, US CBO)
Kent Smetters (University of Pennsylvania and NBER)
Moderated by: Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College and NBER)
14:20
Tea and coffee
14:40
Session: Public R&D and Economic Development
Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution
Heitor S. Pellegrina (Notre Dame University)
The Public Origins of American Innovation
Paolo Surico (London Business School and CEPR)
16:00
Break
16:20
Keynote: Philippe Aghion (Collège de France, INSEAD, LSE, CEPR; 2025 Nobel Laureate), “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”
Introduced by: Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris and CEPR
17:30
End of Sessions
18:30
Dinner at London Business School
Featuring: John Van Reenen reflecting on his experience in economic policymaking
Friday, 20 March
9:00
Session: Geographic Integration
The Geography of Innovative Firms
Marta Prato (Bocconi University and CEPR)
The Incentive and Welfare Effects of the European Unitary Patent
Otto Toivanen (Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki GSE, and CEPR)
10:20
Tea and coffee
10:40
Session: Political Institutions
Ready, Set, Unify: The Uneven Race between Trabants and BMWs
Sina Ates (Federal Reserve Board)
Dictators, Democracies, and Discoveries: The Effect of Political Institutions on Science
Fabian Waldinger (LMU Munich and CEPR)
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Session: Scientist and Inventor Productivity
Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science
Kyle Myers (Harvard Business School and NBER)
The Tax Lives of Inventors
Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University, CEPR, and NBER)
14:20
Closing remarks: Bill Janeway (University of Cambridge)
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