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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

December 5, 2014

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

Riverfront Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, December 4:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner Catalyst Restaurant 300 Technology Square Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 5:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
	Identifying Entrepreneurs
9.00 am	Erin L. Scott, NUS Business School Pian Shu, Harvard University Roman M. Lubynsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Evaluating Early-Stage Ideas: Evidence from Venture Mentoring Discussant: David McKenzie, The World Bank
9:50 am	Deepak Hegde, New York University Justin Tumlinson, University of Munich Unobserved Ability and Entrepreneurship Discussant: Rebecca Zarutzkie, Federal Reserve Board
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics Michael Leatherbee, Stanford University Business Accelerators: Evidence from Start-up Chile Discussant: Shai Bernstein, Stanford University
	Entrepreneurship and Job Creation
11:50 am	Manuel Adelino, Duke University Song Ma, Duke University David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER Firm Age, Investment Opportunities, and Job Creation Discussant: John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
12:40 pm	Lunch – Parkview Room
	R&D and Entrepreneurship
1:30 pm	Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER Carlos J. Serrano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and NBER Rosemarie Ziedonis, University of Oregon Patent Collateral, Investor Commitment, and the Market for Venture Lending Discussant: Berk Sensoy, Ohio State University
2:20 pm	Break
2:40 pm	Annamaria Conti, Georgia Institute of Technology Evaluating Government R&D Grants to Startups: The Case of a Small Open Economy Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:30 pm	Adjourn