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As of August 31, 2007
BOARD ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC POLICY (STEP)
In Collaboration with
LEVIN GRADUATE INSTITUTE, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS
URBAN INSTITUTE
ATHENA ALLIANCE
The Dragon and the Elephant:
Understanding the Development of Innovation Capacity
in China and India
September 24-25, 2007
The National Academies
2100 C Street, N.W.
Washington, DC
Preliminary Agenda
8:30 AM Welcome and Introduction
David T. Morgenthaler, Morgenthaler Ventures, Chair
8:45 AM
Session 1: China and India in the Global Economy
Edward Luce, Washington Bureau, Financial Times, Moderator
Nicholas R. Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
Sean M. Dougherty, OECD Economics Department
9:45 AM
Session II: What is our interest?
Norman P. Neureiter, AAAS and U.S-Indian S&T Forum, Moderator
Tony Hey, Microsoft Research
Kent Hughes, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Da Hsuan Feng, University of Texas at Dallas
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM
Session III: Human Capital Development
Pete Engardio, Business Week, Moderator
V.S. Ramamurthy, Indian Institute of Technology
Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania
Vivek Wadhwa, Harvard School of Law
Jai Menon, IBM Corporation
Cong Cao, Levin Graduate Institute, SUNY
12:00 Noon
Session IV: Keynote Speech
Satyanarayan Gangaram “Sam” Pitroda, Indian Knowledge Commission
1:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM
Session V: Capital Markets and Investment
Martin F. Kenney, University of California Davis
Oded Shenkar, Ohio State University
Lee S. Ting, WR Hambrecht+Co.
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM
Session VI: Research and Commercialization Infrastructure
J. Thomas Ratchford, George Mason University, Chair
Mu Rongping, Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Panel:
Denis F. Simon, Levin Graduate Institute, SUNY, Moderator
Lan Xue, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Harkesh K. Mittal, Department of Science and Technology, India
Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations
Carl Dahlman, Georgetown University
Venkatesh Rao Aiyagari, Science and Engineering Research Council,
Department of Science and Technology, India
Richard Forcier, Hewlett-Packard Company
4:45 PM
Session VII: Legal Environment: Competition Policy, Standards, and Intellectual Property
Alan Wm. Wolff, Dewey Ballantine, LLP, Moderator
Pete Suttmeier, University of Oregon
Shamnad Basheer, George Washington University Law Center and Bhaven N. Sampat, Columbia University
Soonhee Jang, Eli Lilly and Company
6:00 PM Reception and Poster Session in the Great Hall
9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction
Mary L. Good, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Chair
9:15 AM Multinationals’ Experience
10:15 Break
10:30 AM
Simultaneous Sessions
Session I: ITC Products and Services
Ashish Arora and Chris Forman, Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Dedrick, University of California at Irvine
Lee S. Ting, W.R. Hambrecht and Lenovo
Dean Shold, Infosys Technologies
Roy Singham, ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Session II: Automobiles and Aerospace Manufacturing
Mary L. Good, Chair
Pete Engardio, Business Week
Thomas R. Pickering, Boeing, ret.
Paul T. McCarthy, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
Jane Zhao, University of Kansas School of Business
Warren Harris, INCAT, a Tata Technologies Company
12:45 PM Lunch
1:30 PM
Plenary Reports from Breakout Sessions
2:45 PM Panel Discussion: What Did We Learn?
3:30 PM Adjourn
Project Sponsors
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Commerce
Conference Sponsors
State University of New York Levin Graduate Institute
Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum
Office of Naval Research
National Science Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
Hewlett-Packard Company
Booz Allen Hamilton
Eli Lilly and Company
Conference agenda in PDF (click here) 
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