PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Hoover IP² Summer Institute on The Economics and Politics of Innovation is designed to educate students and young professionals on how to think systematically about regulatory systems and their consequences. Its goal is to equip attendees with analytic tools that are basic to good policymaking. The Summer Institute follows the model of executive education programs organized by business schools. It is an intensive, two‐week long program in which participants are taught by instructors who are experts in the particular subject matter being studied on that particular day. Enrollment is limited to twenty-two students in order to foster interaction with the instructors and intensive engagement with other participants.

PROGRAM DATES
August 5–17, 2018

LOCATION
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California

PROGRAM FEE
Fees, food and lodging, and transportation will be free to accepted applicants

UNITS COVERED

  • Innovation and the Patent System
  • Antitrust, Risk, and Regulation
  • Innovation and Finance
  • Energy and Environment

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

  • Advanced law students
  • Recent law school graduates
  • Capitol Hill staff
  • Federal judicial clerks
  • Students and recent graduates of public policy programs
  • Young professionals working at the nexus of business and law

Summer Institute on the Economics and Politics of Innovation.

Program dates: August 5–17, 2018

The Summer Institute, which is a residential program held at Stanford University, is an intensive two-week program for recent graduates and advanced students in law schools and public policy programs, congressional and legislative staff members, judicial interns, and young professionals. The institute is taught by professors from leading universities; topics include an overview of the US patent system, anti-trust economics, financial regulation, energy, and environmental issues. All room and board and travel costs are covered by the Hoover Institution.

Application deadline: January 22, 1018

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