Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting
Organized by Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
December 5, 2014
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Friday, December 5

9:00 am

Unobserved Ability and Entrepreneurship

Deepak Hegde, New York University and NBER
Justin Tumlinson, University of Exeter

9:30 am

Evaluating Government R&D Grants to Startups: The Case of a Small Open Economy

Annamaria Conti, IE Business School

9:45 am

Evaluating Early-Stage Ideas: Evidence from Venture Mentoring

Erin L. Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pian Shu, Sight Sphere
Roman M. Lubynsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:50 am

Business Accelerators: Evidence from Start-up Chile

Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Michael Leatherbee, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

1:20 pm

Patent Collateral, Investor Commitment, and the Market for Venture Lending

Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER