NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Entrepreneurship:  Strategy and Structure

Pre-conference

 

January 7, 2007

 

Thomas Hellmann and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

Fairmont Hotel

200 N. Columbus Dr.

Chicago, IL

 

PRELIMIANRY PROGRAM

 

SUNDAY, JANUARY 7:

 

 10:00 am        BORIS GROYSBERG, ASHISH NANDA and JULIA PRATS,

                        Harvard University

Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility?

Empirical Evidence from The Financial Analysis Market

 

10:30 am         ANAND NANDKUMAR and ASHISH ARORA, Carnegie Mellon University

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Spin-Offs:

Evidence from the Security Software Industry

 

11:00 am         HONGBIN CAI, UC, Los Angeles

                        YASUYUKI TODO, Aoyama Gakuin University

                        LI-AN ZHOU, Peking University

Impacts of Multinational Enterprises on Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from a Chinese Science Park

           

11:30 am         WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

                        TBA

 

12:00 pm         Lunch

 

 1:00 pm          JOSHUA GANS, University of Melbourne

                        Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics

 

 1:30 pm          TIMOTHY SIMCOE, University of Toronto

                        MARYANN FELDMAN, University of Georgia

                        STUART GRAHAM, Georgia Institute of Technology

                        Entrepreneurship and the Cost of Technical Coordination

 

 2:00 pm          IAIN COCKBURN and MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

                        Patents and Start-up Financing in the Software Industry

 

 2:30 pm          Break

 

 3:00 pm          MARCO DA RIN and MARIA FABIANA PENAS, Tilburg University

                        The Effect of Venture Capital on Start-upsÂ’ Innovation Strategy

 

 3:30 pm          SHERIDAN TITMAN and ANDRES ALMAZAN, University of Texas at Austin

                        JAVIER SUAREZ, CEMFI

                        FirmsÂ’ Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency

 

 4:00 pm          VLADIMIR IVANOV, University of Kansas

                        VLADIMIR ATANASOV, The College of William and Mary

                        KATHERINE LITVAK, University of Texas at Austin

                        VCs and the Expropriation of Entrepreneurs

 

4:30 pm           Break / Organizers' remarks

 

5:00 pm           PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER

                        THIBAULT FALLY, Ecole Normale Superieure

                        STEFANO SCARPETTA, The World Bank

Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Entry and the Post-Entry Growth of Firms: Evidence from Cross Country Firm-Level Panel Data

 

 5:30 pm          SCOTT SHANE, Case Western University

Do Preferences Explain the Difference in Performance of Male- and Female-Led New Ventures?

 

 6:00 pm          Adjourn

 

 


12/4/06