NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

 

Josh Lerner, Organizer

 

October 7, 2005

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6:

 

 6:30 pm          Group Dinner

                        Davios at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE

 

 9:00 am          NAOMI LAMOREAUX and KENNETH SOKOLOFF,

UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Financing Invention during the Second Industrial Revolution:  Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920

(Joint with MARGARET LEVENSTEIN)

 

Discussant: STEVEN KLEPPER, Carnegie Mellon University

 

10:00 am         Break

 

THE DETERMINANTS AND PERFORMANCE OF ENTREPRENEURS

 

10:15 AM         DAVID HSU, University of Pennsylvania

Entrepreneurs from Technology-Based Universities:

An Empirical First Look

(Joint with EDWARD ROBERTS AND CHARLES EESLEY)

 

Discussant: DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

NICK BLOOM, Stanford University

Measuring and Explaining Management Practices across Firms and

Countries

(Joint with JOHN VAN REENEN)

 

Discussant: BELEN VILLALONGA, Harvard University

 

 

12:15 pm         Lunch

 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN DEVELOPING NATIONS

 

 1:15 pm          GÉRARD ROLAND, UC, Berkeley

Who Are China's Entrepreneurs?

(Joint with SIMEON DJANKOV, YINGYI QIAN, and

EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA)

           

AMAR BHIDE, Columbia University

What Holds Back Bangalore’s Businesses?

 

ESTHER DUFLO, MIT and NBER

Understanding Technology Adoption:  Fertilizer in Western Kenya

(Joint with MICHAEL KREMER and JONATHN ROBINSON)

 

Academic Discussant: RAY FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER

 

Practitioner Discussant: RUNA ALAM, CEO, Kingdom Zephyr Africa

 

4:15 pm           Adjourn

 

 

 

9/30/05