In the 2000s China moved from modest contributor to global patents to become the number one patent producing country in the world. What is the quality of Chinese patents compared to those of US/other countries? To what extent is China’s patent growth frontier inventions vs catch-up of products new to China but not the world? What is the relation of patents with economic outcomes?
These questions with statistical and case evidence will be answered in this lecture.
About the speaker
Prof Richard Freeman received his PhD from Harvard University in 1969. He furthered his career at Yale University and University of Chicago as an assistant professor. He joined Harvard University in the later stage and is currently the Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. He is also the Director of Science and Engineering Workforce Project in the US National Bureau of Economic Research.
Prof Freeman’s research interests include the job market for scientists and engineers; the transformation of scientific ideas into innovations; Chinese labor markets; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; and forms of labor market representation and shared capitalism.
Prof Freeman received numerous awards including the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006, the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2007 and the Global Equity Organization Judges Award in 2016. He was also appointed the Frances Perkins Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). He is currently serving on the AAAS Initiative for Science and Technology. He has served or is serving on 12 Panels and Boards of the US National Academy of Sciences.
For attendees’ attention
The lecture is free and open to all. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
Light refreshments will be served from 5:00 to 5:30 pm.
