The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation. The conference will be held at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, IL. The conference will run from approximately 12:00 P.M. on Thursday, June 21st, 2012 to 3:00 P.M. on Friday, June 22nd, 2012. There will be a dinner reception and keynote address on Thursday night.

Topics include:

• Internet search and antitrust
• Privacy issues in Internet search and marketing
• Competition and barriers to entry in two-sided markets
• Business method inventions and patents for Internet inventions
• The Internet, innovation, and intellectual property
• Market design, platforms, and e-commerce
• R&D and innovation in high-tech
• Open standards and entrepreneurship
• Data portability
• Cloud computing
• Joint work in economics and computer science on search algorithms and other topics related to Internet search

Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: editjems@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. Potential attendees should indicate their interest in receiving an invitation by sending a message to Derek Gundersen at d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu.

Information on the Searle Center’s activities may be found at: www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter.