
	Monday, July 18
	The Bright Side of Patents Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
	The Private Impact of Public Maps: Landsat Satellite Imagery and Gold Exploration Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:00 am	The Roles of Nature and Nurture in Entrepreneurial Success Hans Hvide, University of Bergen Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
9:45 am	The Effect of Manager Education on Firm Growth Francisco Queiro, Nova School of Business and Economics
10:45 am	The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings and Entrepreneurship Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER Ethan Cohen-Cole, Econ One Research
11:30 am	Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs? Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER Ting Xu, University of Toronto
1:15 PM	Training Aspiring Entrepreneurs to Pitch Experienced Investors: Evidence from a Field Experiment David Clingingsmith, Case Western Reserve University Scott Shane, Case Western Reserve University
2:00 pm	The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London Sampsa Samila, IESE Business School Olav Sorenson, University of California at Los Angeles
3:00 pm	How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER William Gornall, University of British Columbia Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER Ilya A. Strebulaev, Stanford University and NBER

Participants

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dasha Anosova, Stanford University
Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Jean-Noël Barrot, HEC Paris
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Amar Bhide, Columbia University
Ant Bozkaya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wendy A. Bradley, Southern Methodist University
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
Albert Bravo-Biosca, Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) & BSE
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
M. Diane Burton, Cornell University
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Indraneel Chakraborty, University of Miami
Aaron Chatterji, Duke University and NBER
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College
Chuan Chen, Washington University in St. Louis
Jun Chen, Renmin University of China
David Clingingsmith, Case Western Reserve University
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Annamaria Conti, IE Business School
Fabrizio Core Mr., Erasmus School of Economics
Steven J. Davis, Stanford University and NBER
Ricardo De la O, University of Southern California
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
Tolga Demir, Bilkent University
Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University and NBER
Lily Fang, INSEAD
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Christian Fons-Rosen, University of California at Merced
Barbara M. Fraumeni, Central University of Finance and Economics and NBER
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto and NBER
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Monica Garcia-Perez, Duke University
Ishan D. Ghosh, Drexel University
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
Will Gornall, University of British Columbia
Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Rahul Gupta
Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Felda Hardymon, Harvard University
Rachel Harris, University of Toronto
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Thomas F. Hellmann, University of Oxford
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Shenje Hshieh, University of California at Los Angeles
David H. Hsu, University of Pennsylvania
Charles R. Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER
Leonardo Iacovone, The World Bank
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Chris Jackson, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
William Janeway, University of Cambridge
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Hyo Kang, University of Southern California
Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Tarun Khanna, Harvard University
J. Daniel Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California
Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER
Karthik Krishnan, Northeastern University
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
Lillian S. Lakes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Renata Lemos, The World Bank
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher Liu, University of Oregon
Elizabeth Lyons, University of California at San Diego
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Jean-Claude Makolo, Northeastern University
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Alan Marco, Georgia Institute of Technology
Astrid Marinoni, Georgia Tech
Gerald R. Marschke, State University of New York at Albany and NBER
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Denis Medvedev, The World Bank
Stephen Merrill, Duke University
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Seongwuk Moon, Sogang University
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Arnobio Morelix, Startup Genome
William Mullins, University of California, San Diego
Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
Yasin Ozcan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Francisco Queiro, Nova School of Business and Economics
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alicia Robb, Next Wave Impact
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Benjamin N. Roin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Sampsa Samila, IESE Business School
Simone Santamaria, Bocconi University
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Erin L. Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Felipe Severino, Dartmouth College
Scott Shane, Case Western Reserve University
Pian Shu, Harvard University
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Stanislav Sokolinski, Michigan State University
Olav Sorenson, University of California at Los Angeles
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Geoffrey Tate, University of Maryland and NBER
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Thompson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jerry Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Wendy Torrance, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Russell Toth, University of Sydney
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Rodrigo A. Wagner, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Su Wang, ShanghaiTech University
Xiaolu Wang, Iowa State University
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
Adam W. Winegar, University of Texas at Austin
Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Ting Xu, University of Toronto
Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Oklahoma
Rebecca Zarutskie, Federal Reserve Board
Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
Brooklynn Zhu, University of Toronto
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER
Samantha Zyontz, Boston University