NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Entrepreneurship:  Strategy and Structure Conference

 

September 14 and 15, 2007

 

Thomas Hellmann and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

Spring Creek Ranch

1800 Spirit Dance Road

Room:  Sage East

Jackson, Wyoming

 

PRELIMIANRY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13:

 

 7:00 pm          Reception and Group Dinner – Room:  Sage West

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14:

 

 8:00 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 8:30 am          HONGBIN CAI, UC, Los Angeles

                        YASUYUKI TODO, University of Tokyo

                        LI-AN ZHOU, Peking University

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

 

Discussant:  REBECCA HENDERSON, MIT and NBER

 

 9:45 am          Break

 

10:00 am         ANAND NANDKUMAR and ASHISH ARORA, Carnegie Mellon University

“Secure Entry”:  Entry, Commercialization Strategies and Performance: The Case of the Information Security Industry

 

                        Discussant:  JEAN DE BETTIGNIES, Queen’s University

 

11:15 am         JOSHUA GANS, University of Melbourne

                        Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics

 

                        Discussant:  YAEL HOCHBERG, Northwestern University

 

12:30 pm         Lunch

 

 1:30 pm          BORIS GROYSBERG, ASHISH NANDA and JULIA PRATS,

                        Harvard University

Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market

 

                        Discussant:  AJAY AGRAWAL, University of Toronto and NBER

 

 2:45 pm          Break

 

 3:00 pm          VLADIMIR IVANOV, University of Kansas

                        VLADIMIR ATANASOV, The College of William and Mary

                        KATHERINE LITVAK, University of Texas at Austin

                        The Impact of Litigation on Venture Capitalist Reputation

 

                        Discussant:  RAMANA NANDA, Harvard University

 

 4:15 pm          PANEL:  The Strategy and Structure of Entrepreneurship

                        TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER

                        BEN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER

                        JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 5:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 7:00 pm          Group Dinner

 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15:

 

 8:00 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 8:30 am          MARCO DA RIN and MARIA FABIANA PENAS, Tilburg University

                        The Effect of Venture Capital on Innovation Strategies

 

                        Discussant:  DAVID HSU, University of Pennsylvania

 

 9:45 am          Break

 

10:00 am         IAIN COCKBURN and MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

                        Patents, Thickets and Early Stage Firms: Evidence from the Software Industry

 

                        Discussant:  WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

 

11:15 am         SHERIDAN TITMAN and ANDRES ALMAZAN, University of Texas at Austin

                        JAVIER SUAREZ, CEMFI

                        Firms’ Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency

 

                        Discussant:  KOSE JOHN, New York University

 

12:30 pm         Lunch

 

 1:30 pm          TIMOTHY SIMCOE, University of Toronto

                        MARYANN FELDMAN, University of Georgia

                        STUART GRAHAM, Georgia Institute of Technology

                        Competing on Standards?  Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, and the Platform Paradox

 

                        Discussant:  SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER  

 

 2:45 pm          Concluding Remarks

 

 3:00 pm          Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

9/17/07