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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Cities and Entrepreneurship Conference

Edward Glaeser, Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange, Organizers

May 1 and 2, 2009

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, April 30
7:00 pm	Reception, Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, May 1
7:45 – 8:15	Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30	Opening Remarks, Robert Strom, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
8:30 – 9:30	AJAY AGRAWAL, University of Toronto and NBER
	IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER
	CARLOS ROSELL, Deptartment of Finance, Canada
	Not Invented Here: Creative Myopia and Company Towns
	Discussant 1: DAVID AUDRETSCH, Indiana Univ./Max Planck Institute
	Discussant 2: RON JARMIN, U.S. Census Bureau
9:30 – 10:30	WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University
	How Important Is Local Innovation for Entrepreneurship? An Assessment through US Scientific Immigration
	Discussant 1: MEGAN MacGARVIE, Boston University and NBER
	Discussant 2: AJAY AGRAWAL, University of Toronto and NBER
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 11:45	PAUL GOMPERS, Harvard University and NBER
	ANNA KOVNER, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
	JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER
	HENRY CHEN, Harvard University
	Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion
	Discussant 1: SUE HELPER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
	Discussant 2: OLAV SORENSON, University of Toronto
11:45 – 1:15	Lunch
1:15 – 2:15	JED KOLKO, PPIC
	DAVID NEUMARK, UC, Irvine and NBER
	Does Local Business Ownership Stabilize Employment?
	Discussant 1: DAN BLACK, University of Chicago
	Discussant 2: MARK DOMS, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
2:15 – 3:15	MICHAEL DAHL, University of Aalborg
	OLAV SORENSON, University of Toronto
	The Migration of Technical Workers
	Discussant 1: ALBERT SAIZ, University of Pennsylvania
	Discussant 2: IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER
3:15 – 3:30	Break
3:30 – 4:30	MARK DOMS, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
	ETHAN LEWIS, Dartmouth College
	ALICIA ROBB, UC, Santa Cruz, Kauffman Foundation
	Local Labor Market Endowments, New Business Characteristics, and Performance
	Discussant 1: KEVIN LANG, Boston University and NBER
	Discussant 2: JED KOLKO, PPIC
6:30 pm	Dinner at Legal Seafood, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
Saturday, May 2
8:00 – 8:30	Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30	EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
	GIACOMO PONZETTO, Harvard University
	WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University
	Geographic Amenities and the Agglomeration of Innovation Entrepreneurship
	Discussant 1: ZOLTAN ACS, George Mason University
	Discussant 2: WILLIAM STRANGE, University of Toronto
9:30 – 10:30	STEVEN KLEPPER, Carnegie Mellon University
	The Origin and Growth of Industry Clusters: The Making of Silicon Valley and Detroit
	Discussant 1: ROBERT MARGO, Boston University and NBER
	Discussant 2: STUART ROSENTHAL, Syracuse University
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 - 11:45	JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER
	RON JARMIN, U.S. Census Bureau
	C.J. KRIZAN, U.S. Census Bureau
	Mom & Pop Meet Big Box: Complements or Substitutes?
	Discussant 1: JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
	Discussant 2: DAVID NEUMARK, UC, Irvine and NBER
11:45 – 12:45	AMANDA ROSS, Syracuse University
	STUART ROSENTHAL, Syracuse University
	Violent Crime, Entrepreneurship, and Vibrant Cities
	Discussant 1: JONAH ROCKOFF, Columbia University and NBER
	Discussant 2: DAN BLACK, University of Chicago
12:45	Lunch and adjourn