SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1:

8:00 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER.

8:15 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER.

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM NAOMI LAMOREAUX, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story?

Discussant: REBECCA HENDERSON, MIT and NBER

9:45 AM Break

10:00 AM EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER

Entrepreneurship

Discussant: DIANE BURTON, MIT

TOBIAS MOSKOWITZ and ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSEN,

University of Chicago and NBER

Why Do Entrepreneurs Hold Large Ownership Shares?

Testing Agency Theory Using Entrepreneur Effort and Wealth

(joint with Marianne Bittler)

Discussant: ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

12:00 N Lunch and Discussion of Future of Entrepreneurship Initiative

Over, Please!

Entrepreneurship Meeting Program, Page 2:

1:15 PM SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER

Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights and Start-Up

Commercialization Strategy: The Strategic Impact of Patent Grants Lags

(Joint with Joshua Gans and David Hsu)

Discussant: MANJU PURI, Stanford University and NBER

STEVEN KLEPPER, Carnegie-Mellon University

The Geography of Organizational Knowledge

Discussant: BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

3:15 PM Adjourn

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