PROGRAM

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

2nd Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp

Thomas Hellmann, Organizer

July 22-25 2009

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

Boot Camp Sylabus

TUESDAY, JULY 21:
8:30 am	All Boot Camp students are welcome to attend the regular session of the NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group Attendance is voluntary and not formally part of the Boot Camp program.
5:00 pm	Entrepreneurship Working Group adjourns
6:00 pm	Welcome Reception for all Boot Camp students
	Grafton Street Pub & Grill
	1230 Massachusetts Avenue
	Cambridge, MA
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
	Topic: The decision to become an entrepreneur: Behavioral and peer effects
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Steven Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
	Topic: What do venture capitalists do?
4:00 pm	Break
4:15 pm	Alicia Robb, UC, Santa Cruz and Kauffman Foundation
	Introduction to entrepreneurship databases
5:00 pm	Adjourn
THURSDAY, JULY 23:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam
	Topic: Ideas, entrepreneurship and public policy
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Toby Stuart, Harvard University
	Topic: Networks in entrepreneurship
4:00 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 24:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
	Topic: Productivity and entrepreneurship
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Scott Stern, Northwestern University and NBER
	Topic: Start-Up Commercialization Strategy and the Market for Ideas
4:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Closing Dinner
	Harvard Faculty Club
	20 Quincy Street
	Cambridge, MA
	Keynote Speaker: James Poterba, MIT and NBER
SATURDAY, JULY 25:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Luis Cabral, New York University
	Topic: Firm entry and growth
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER
	Topic: Returns to private equity
4:00 pm	Adjourn