NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

6th Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp

 

Thomas Hellmann, Organizer

 

July 17-20, 2013

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

Participant List


TUESDAY, JULY 16:

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 17:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Topic:  Entrepreneurship and Household Behavior

 

 

12:00 pm

Robert Strom, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

 

Topic: Kauffman Foundation Programs

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Alicia Robb, UC Santa Cruz and Kauffman Foundation

 

Topic:  Introduction to Entrepreneurship Databases

 

 

2:00 pm

John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Topic:  Productivity and Entrepreneurship

 

 

5:00 pm

Break

 

 

5:30 pm

Boot camp student introductions

 

 

7:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 18:

 

 

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 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

 

Topic:  Management, Organization and Innovation

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn


FRIDAY, JULY 19:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

 

Topic:  The Empirics of Entrepreneurial Venture Creation

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

William Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

 

Topic:  Cities, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Closing Dinner

 

Harvard Faculty Club

 

20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

Keynote Speaker: Steven Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER

 

Topic:  Development and Entrepreneurship

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Thomas Hellmann, UBC and NBER

 

Topic:  Entrepreneurial Finance

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn



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