The Northwestern University School of Law Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Ninth Annual Conference on Innovation Economics. The conference will be held at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, IL. The conference will run from approximately 9:00 A.M. on Thursday, June 23, 2016 to 3:00 P.M. on Friday, June 24, 2016.
The goal of this conference is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern’s own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high-quality research relevant to intellectual property (IP) protection, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address:
searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.
Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. Potential attendees who are not submitting a paper should indicate their interest in receiving an invitation by sending a message to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.
At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference. Authors of each accepted paper will receive an allotted speaker fee of $1,500 per paper, regardless of the number of authors. Please note that due to potential funding sources for this event, the Searle Center reserves the right to structure the payment as either a speaker fee or a travel expense reimbursement up to the agreed upon amount. The Searle Center will also reserve and pay for hotel accommodations for authors and discussants for the nights of Wednesday, June 22, 2016 and Thursday, June 23, 2016. Authors are expected to attend and participate in the full duration of the conference.
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