NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

5th Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp

 

Thomas Hellmann, Organizer

 

July 18-21, 2012

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, JULY 17:


8:30 am           All Boot Camp students are welcome to attend the regular session of the NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. 
                        http://www.nber.org/~confer/2012/SI2012/PRENT/prentprg.html

Attendance is voluntary and not formally part of the Boot Camp Program.

 

4:30 pm           Entrepreneurship Working Group adjourns


6:00 pm           Welcome Reception for all Boot Camp students

Le Méridien Cambridge-MIT (The Loft Room)

20 Sidney Street

Cambridge, MA



WEDNESDAY, JULY 18:

 

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am           Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

                        Topic:  The Empirics of Entrepreneurial Venture Creation

 

12:00 n            Robert Strom, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Topic: Dissertation Fellowship Program

 

12:15 n            Lunch

 

1:15 pm           Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

                        Topic:  Entrepreneurship and Household Behavior

 

4:15 pm           Break

 

5:00 pm           Voluntary Student Presentations

 

Boot Camp students introduce themselves and can briefly talk about their own research agendas (strictly informal, no slides!)

 

8:00 pm           Adjourn



THURSDAY, JULY 19:

 

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am           Scott Stern, MIT and NBER

                        Topic:  Start-Up Commercialization Strategy and the Market for Ideas

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

1:00 pm           John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER

                        Topic:  Productivity and Entrepreneurship

 

4:00 pm           Adjourn



FRIDAY, JULY 20:

 

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am           Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER

                        Topic:  Human Capital in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

1:00 pm           Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER

                        Topic:  Competition and Innovation

 

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 21:

 

7:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

8:00 am           Alicia Robb, UC Santa Cruz and Kauffman Foundation

                        Topic: Introduction to Entrepreneurship Databases

 

9:00 am           Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER

                        Topic: Development and Entrepreneurship

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

1:00 pm           Thomas Hellmann, UBC and NBER

                        Topic:  Venture Capital Financing

 

4:00 pm           Adjourn






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