NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Entrepreneurship:
Strategy and Structure Conference
September
14 and 15, 2007
Thomas
Hellmann and Scott Stern, Organizers
Spring
Creek Ranch
Room: Sage East
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,
YASUYUKI TODO,
LI-AN ZHOU,
Discussant: REBECCA HENDERSON, MIT and
NBER
9:45 am
Break
10:00
am
ANAND NANDKUMAR and ASHISH ARORA,
Secure Entry: Entry, Commercialization Strategies and
Performance: The Case of the Information Security
Industry
Discussant: JEAN DE
BETTIGNIES, Queens University
11:15
am
JOSHUA GANS,
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,
Discussant: AJAY AGRAWAL,
University of Toronto and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
VLADIMIR IVANOV,
VLADIMIR ATANASOV, The
KATHERINE LITVAK,
The Impact of Litigation
on Venture Capitalist Reputation
Discussant: RAMANA NANDA,
4:15 pm
PANEL: The Strategy and
Structure of Entrepreneurship
TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN,
BEN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER
JOSH LERNER,
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,
The Effect of Venture Capital on Innovation
Strategies
Discussant: DAVID HSU,
9:45 am
Break
10:00
am
IAIN COCKBURN and MEGAN MACGARVIE,
Patents,
Thickets and Early Stage Firms: Evidence from the Software
Industry
Discussant: WILLIAM KERR,
11:15
am
JAVIER SUAREZ, CEMFI
Firms
Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency
Discussant: KOSE JOHN,
12:30
pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
TIMOTHY SIMCOE,
MARYANN FELDMAN,
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