RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON PROPERTY RIGHTS ECONOMICS AND INNOVATION
November 13th - 14th 2008
Northwestern University School of Law
Chicago, IL
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth
at Northwestern University School of Law presents a
Research Symposium on Property Rights Economics and
Innovation on Thursday, November 13th (8:00 a.m.)-Friday,
November 14th, 2008 (12:30 p.m.)
The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum
where economists and legal scholars can gather together
with Northwestern University’s own distinguished faculty
to present and discuss high quality research exploring the
relationships between property rights economics and
innovation.
The conference is organized by Professor David D. Haddock,
Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Northwestern
University School of Law, and Henry N. Butler, Executive
Director, Searle Center.
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS AND PAPER TITLES:
Reiko Aoki, Associate Professor, University of Auckland,
New Zealand - Economics
Licensing Rules and Innovation
Olufunmilayo Arewa, Associate Professor of Law,
Northwestern University School of Law
Intellectual Property and Innovation: Entrepreneurship,
Competition and Technology Markets
Kenneth Ayotte, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern
University School of Law
A Theory of Legal Personality Based on Contract Bundling
Richard Brooks, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
The Identity Commons
Damien Geradin, Professor of Competition Law and Economics,
University of Tilburg, Law & Economics Center
Business Models for the Commercialization of Innovation and
the Competitive Process
Avner Grief, Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and
Sciences, Stanford University, Department of Economics
Property Rights, Contract-enforcement, and Growth
David Haddock, Professor of Law, Northwestern University
School of Law
Irrelevant IP Angst
F. Scott Kieff, Professor of Law, Washington University in
St. Louis School of Law, and Hoover Institution
A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Interaction
Mechanisms among Market Actors under Property Rules and
Liability Rules
Lynne Kiesling, Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University,
Department of Economics
Who Owns Electricity Consumption Data? The Effects of
Technological Change on the Value and Definition of
Property Rights in the Electric Power Industry
Stan Liebowitz, Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics,
University of Texas at Dallas
Is the Access-Incentive Tradeoff a Correct Description of
Intellectual Property Markets?
Robert Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor
of Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley,
School of Law
Demsetzian Property Theory and the Future of Intellectual
Property
Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences
and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern
University
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution,
and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth
Petra Moser, Assistant Professor, Stanford University,
Department of Economics
Why Don’t Inventors Patent?
David Orozco, Assistant Professor, Michigan Tech, School of
Business and Economics
Innovation Policy and Friends of the Court: Intellectual
Property Advocacy Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Yi Qian, Assistant Professor in Marketing, Kellogg School
of Management, Marketing Department, Northwestern
University
The Interplay of Policies for Pharmaceutical R&D
Henry Smith, Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and
Environmental Law, Yale Law School
Information Costs in Property, Intellectual Property, and
Organizations
Emerson H. Tiller, J. Landis Martin Professor of Law and
Business, Northwestern University School of Law
Business Method Patents
REGISTRATION:
The conference registration fee is $495.00 but will be
waived for academic affiliates and government employees. To
reserve a space at this event, you must send a message with
name, affiliation and full contact information to:
Email: MAILTO:searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu
or call
Tel: (312) 503-1811
Space is limited. Please register no later than November
5th.
Checks should be made payable to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
and sent to:
CONTACT: Searle Center on Law, Regulation,
and Economic Growth
Northwestern University School of Law
357 E. Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Online registration (available mid-August) and additional
information can be found at:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter/conference/2008/innovation/index.html
LOCATION:
Northwestern University School of Law
Wieboldt Hall
340 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
FURTHER INFORMATION:
For more information regarding this conference or other
initiatives of the Searle Center, please visit:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter
or call or email:
Tel: (312) 503-1811
Email: MAILTO:searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu
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