New Building Blocks for Jobs and Economic Growth:
Intangible Assets as Sources of Increased Productivity and Enterprise Value
A conference presented by
OECD, Athena Alliance, The Conference Board, Kauffman Foundation, and US National Academies
hosted by the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
May 16-17, 2011
Rafik B. Hariri Building, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
www.conferenceboard.org/NewBuildingBlocks
SCHEDULE
Sunday May 15:
Informal reception (6:00 – 7:30)
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
Monday May 16:
Participant registration and continental breakfast (8:00 – 8:45)
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
Introduction and welcome (8:45 – 9:00)
What the conference is all about: Kenan Jarboe, President, Athena Alliance
Opening remarks and introduction: Richard Boucher, Deputy Sec. General, OECD
Lohrfink Auditorium, 2nd floor
Keynote address: (9:00 – 9:45)
Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Lohrfink Auditorium, 2nd floor
Plenary roundtable discussion: (9:45 – 11:15)
Moderator: Jon Spector, CEO, The Conference Board
Otaviano Canuto, Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, World Bank
Allen Howell, CEO, Corporate Flight Management
Edward Jung, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Intellectual Ventures
Lisa Lynch, Dean, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
Carl Shapiro, White House Council of Economic Advisors
David Stafford, COO, Michelin Americas Research Company
Manuel Trajtenberg - Professor and former Head of Israel’s National Economic Council
Lohrfink Auditorium, 2nd floor
Break (11:15 – 11:30)
Coffee available at Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
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Rapid briefing rounds (11:30 – 12:30)
Classrooms 1st floor: 130, 145, 155, 160
Start of workshop process: participants to go to their "start" room as assigned. Participants in each
workshop will receive a briefing on the topics to be covered in all the other workshops.
Lunch (12:30 – 1:15)
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
Working group sessions #1 (1:15 – 4:15)
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Global Competition and Collaboration
Boosting Competitiveness, Jobs and Growth
Emerging Measures for Strategic Management
Driving Next-Generation Innovation Ecosystems
Classrooms 1st floor: 130, 145, 155, 160
Participants to go to their workshop room as assigned.
(Self managed breaks - coffee available at Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor)
Note: the same workshops repeat on the morning of day two, but with a different group of participants.
Each conference attendee participates in two separate workshops during the course of the two days.
Report back and synthesis conversation (4:15 – 5:15)
Lohrfink Auditorium, 2th floor
Reception and Dinner (6:30 – )
Speaker Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From
Reception: Patio, 3rd floor
Dinner: Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
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Tuesday May 17:
Continental breakfast for workshop participants (8:15 – 8:45)
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
Introduction to day two (8:45 – 9:00) Kenan Jarboe, Athena Alliance
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
Working group sessions #2 (9:00 – 12:00)
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Global Competition and Collaboration
Boosting Competitiveness, Jobs and Growth
Emerging Measures for Strategic Management
Driving Next-Generation Innovation Ecosystems
Classrooms 1st floor: 130, 145, 155, 160
Participants to go to their workshop room as assigned.
(Self managed breaks - coffee available at Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor)
Note: the same workshops as afternoon of day one, but with a different group of participants. Each
conference attendee participates in two separate workshops.
Lunch and report out (12:00 – 12:45)
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
World Cafe rounds (12:45 – 1:45)
Facilitated small group conversations on conference topics
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
Plenary summary session (1:45 –2:45)
Moderator: Lesa Mitchell, Vice-President for Innovation, Kauffman Foundation
Rebecca Blank, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, Department of Commerce, United
States
Tony Clayton, Chief Economist, Intellectual Property Office, United Kingdom
Raine Hermans, Director, Strategic Intelligence, TEKES - the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology
and Innovation
John Mayo, Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
Ken Warwick, Chair, Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, OECD
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor
Closing remarks (2:45 –3:00)
Andrew Wyckoff, Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI), OECD
Richard Cohon, Chairman, Athena Alliance
Fisher Colloquium, 4th floor