As part of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute, the Innovation Policy & the Economy (IPE) group will be holding a research meeting.  The session will take place on Monday, July 20, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

The IPE group focuses on research in economics or other social sciences that analyzes or relates to significant issues of public policy affecting innovation, or its effects on the economy.  The group holds two meetings each year.  The summer meeting is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of research papers.  The audience will consist of both researchers and policy participants.  Preference will be given to empirical research, but interesting theoretical work that is closely-connected to real world problems will also be considered.

If you would like to present at this meeting, please send a PDF or your paper to Rob Shannon at rshannon@nber.org.

Submissions must be received by March 27, 2009.  Unfortunately, space is limited at the Summer Institute and thus it will not be possible to invite everyone who receives this call for papers.  Invited participants will receive logistical information in May.

If you have any questions, or need additional information, please contact Rob in the NBER's conference department at 617/868-3900 or rshannon@nber.org.

The next meeting of the NBER's Entrepreneurship Working Group will held on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 in Cambridge, MA as part of NBER's Summer Institute.  This will be the first time the Entrepreneurship Working Group has met during the Summer Institute and should provide good opportunity for researchers to be a part of NBER's larger activities (http://www.nber.org/callforpapers/call_si09.html).  Please note there will be no March meeting.

If you have a paper you would like to present, please send it or an abstract to me by e-mail (jlerner@hbs.edu), FAX (617-495-3817), or mail (Harvard Business School, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 214, Boston, MA 02163) by March 27.  I would also appreciate it if you could pass this call for papers on to colleagues who might be interested, but who may not be on the Bureau's mailing list.

Please contact Rob Shannon in the NBER's Conference Department if you have any further questions.  He can be reached at 617/868-3900 or rshannon@nber.org.