NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Thomas Hellmann, Organizer
July 18-21, 2012
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
TUESDAY, JULY 17:
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/2012/SI2012/PRENT/prentprg.html
Attendance is voluntary and not formally part of the
Boot Camp Program.
4:30 pm Entrepreneurship Working Group
adjourns
6:00 pm Welcome Reception for all Boot Camp students
Le Méridien Cambridge-MIT
(The Loft Room)
20 Sidney Street
Cambridge, MA
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18:
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Josh Lerner, Harvard University and
NBER
Topic:
The Empirics of Entrepreneurial
Venture Creation
12:00 n Robert Strom, Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation
Topic: Dissertation
Fellowship Program
12:15 n Lunch
1:15 pm Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and
NBER
Topic:
Entrepreneurship and Household
Behavior
4:15 pm Break
5:00 pm Voluntary Student Presentations
Boot
Camp students introduce themselves and can briefly talk about their own
research agendas (strictly informal, no slides!)
8:00 pm Adjourn
THURSDAY, JULY 19:
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 n Lunch
1:00 pm John Haltiwanger,
University of Maryland and NBER
Topic:
Productivity and Entrepreneurship
4:00 pm Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 20:
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Topic:
Human Capital in Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
12:00 n Lunch
1:00 pm Philippe Aghion,
Harvard University and NBER
Topic:
Competition and Innovation
4:00 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Closing Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
Keynote Speaker: James Poterba,
MIT and NBER
SATURDAY, JULY 21:
7:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am Alicia Robb, UC Santa Cruz and
Kauffman Foundation
Topic: Introduction
to Entrepreneurship Databases
9:00 am
Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER
Topic: Development
and Entrepreneurship
12:00 n Lunch
1:00 pm Thomas Hellmann, UBC and NBER
Topic:
Venture Capital Financing
4:00 pm Adjourn
READING LIST