NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

4th Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp

 

Thomas Hellmann, Organizer

 

July 27-30, 2011

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

SYLLABUS



TUESDAY, JULY 26:


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/2011/SI2011/PRENT/PRENTprg.html

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

 

3:45 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 27:

 

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am           Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

                        Topic:  The Empirics of Entrepreneurial Venture Creation

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

1:00 pm           Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University and NBER

                        Topic:  Privately versus Publicly Held Companies

 

4:00 pm           Break

 

4:15 pm           Jared Konczal, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program

 

4:30 pm           Alicia Robb, UC, Santa Cruz and Kauffman Foundation

                        Topic:  Introduction to Entrepreneurship Databases

 

5:30 pm           Adjourn

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 28:

 

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am           Thomas Hellmann, UBC and NBER

                        Topic:  Venture Capital Financing

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

1:00 pm           Scott Stern, MIT and NBER

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

 

4:00 pm           Break

 

6:00 pm           Voluntary student presentations

 

                       Boot Camp students can briefly present their own work without slides, and obtain informal feedback.

 

9:00 pm           Adjourn



FRIDAY, JULY 29:

 

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am           Annamaria Lusardi, Dartmouth College and NBER

                        Topic:  The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

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

                        Topic:  Productivity and Entrepreneurship

 

4:00 pm           Adjourn

 

6:00 pm           Closing Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

 

                        Keynote Speaker: Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 30:

 

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am           Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER

                        Topic: Development and Entrepreneurship

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

1:00 pm           Olav Sorenson, Yale University

                        Topic:  Sociological Approaches to Entrepreneurship

 

4:00 pm           Adjourn