The National Bureau of Economic Research‘s Innovation Policy and the Economy Working Group is seeking paper proposals for a conference on Patents, Standards and Innovation. Proposals are due March 3, 2011. “A pre-conference is scheduled for May 7, 2011, in Cambridge, MA, and the formal conference will be held in late 2011 or early 2012.” Papers from the conference — and some others — will be published in a theme issue of the International Journal of Industrial Organization (IJIO).
The goal of this conference is to promote original empirical and theoretical research on intellectual property issues in technologies or sectors in which de facto, voluntary, legal or technical standards play an important role.
The full call for papers is posted on the Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog. mw
