Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Fifth Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)-Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Conference on Intellectual Property and Innovation
Thursday, June 14 - Friday, June 15, 2012
Registration | Agenda

The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents the Fifth Annual Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)-Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Conference on Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship to be held at Northwestern University School of Law, Thursday, June 14, 2012-Friday, June 15, 2012. The conference will run from 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 14 to 3:15 p.m. on Friday, June 15. There will be a keynote address by James E. Malackowski, Chairman and CEO of Ocean Tomo, LLC, on Thursday afternoon. On Thursday evening, there will be a cocktail reception, dinner, and keynote address by Stuart Graham, Chief Economist, USPTO.

The USPTO and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation are jointly sponsoring the conference. This conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director of the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law (Courtesy), and Stuart Graham, Chief Economist, USPTO, and Georgia Tech College of Management.

The goal of this conference is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high-quality research relevant to intellectual property (IP) protection, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

This conference will be an important component of the Searle Center's expanded entrepreneurship and innovation focus. Conference participants will explore the connections between IP, innovation, and entrepreneurship through empirical and theoretical economic and legal analysis. This interdisciplinary conference will be composed of presentations by leading researchers in economics and law, and participating authors will have their papers formally discussed by leading thinkers in the field. In addition, the conference will draw audiences of academics in economics, law, and business, as well as legal and business practitioners, government officials, and public policy makers.

This program has been approved for 11.75 CLE credits in the State of Illinois.

For a complete detailed agenda please click here.

 

Thursday, June 14

Session One: Licensing and Markets for IP
Session Chair: F. Scott Kieff, George Washington University

Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights
Alberto Galasso*, University of Toronto
Mark Schankerman, London School of Economics
Carlos J. Serrano, University of Toronto
Discussant: Annika Lorenz, Technische Universitat Berlin

Patent Pools and Licensing Strategies Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries under the New Deal
Ryan Lampe*, DePaul University 
Petra Moser, Stanford University
Discussant: Annika Lorenz, Technische Universitat Berlin

Intermediaries for the IP market
Andrei Hagiu*, Harvard University
David Yoffie, Harvard University
Discussant: Marcus Berliant, Washington University in St. Louis

Culture and Diversity in Knowledge Creation
Marcus Berliant*, Washington University in St. Louis
Masahisa Fujita, RIETI
Discussant: Daniel F. Spulber, Northwestern University

 

Keynote Address: The Evolving IP Market: What's Happening Now and What Can We Expect Next
James E. Malackowski, Chairman and CEO of Ocean Tomo, LLC

Session Two: IP and Commercialization of Inventions
Session Chair: Stuart Graham, United States Patent and Trademark Office

Adverse Effects of Patent Pooling on Product Development and Commercialization
Thomas D. Jeitschko*, U.S. Department of Justice
Nanyun Zhang, Towson University
Discussant: Junjie Zhou, University of California, Berkeley

Innovation Beyond Patents: Technological Complexity as a Protection against Imitation
Emeric Henry, Sciences Po Paris
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda*, Ecole Polytechnique
Discussant: Junjie Zhou, University of California, Berkeley

Determinants of the Quality and Price of Innovative Industrial Products: Evidence from the Disk Drive Industry
James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Discussant: Reiko Aoki, Hitotsubashi University

Intellectual Property Contracts: Theory and Evidence from Screenplay Sales
Milton Harris, University of Chicago
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid*, Yeshiva University
Suman Basuroy, University of Oklahoma
Discussant: Reiko Aoki, Hitotsubashi University

 

Session Three: Patents and Sequential R&D
Session Chair: Richard A. Jensen, University of Notre Dame

Patent Pools and the Dynamic Incentives to R&D
Vianney Dequiedt, Universite d'Auvergne
Bruno Versaevel*, EMLYON Business School
Discussant: Joaquin Poblete, London School of Economics

Sequential Innovation and Optimal Patent Design
Christian Riis*, Norwegian Business School
Xianwen Shi, University of Toronto
Discussant: Joaquin Poblete, London School of Economics

Inventing-around Edison's Incandescent Lamp Patent: Evidence of the Role of Patents in Stimulating Downstream Development
Ron D. Katznelson*, Bi-Level Technologies
John Howells, Aarhus University
Discussant: Theresa Helena Veer, Technische Universitat Berlin

Are Licensing Agreements Appropriate Instruments to Cut Through the Patent Thicket?
Ralph Siebert*, Purdue University
Georg von Graevenitz, University of Munich
Discussant: Theresa Helena Veer, Technische Universitat Berlin

 

Keynote Address
Stuart Graham, United States Patent and Trademark Office


Friday, June 15

Session Four: How Organizations Affect Innovation
Session Chair: TBD

Why Are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity
Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto
Iain Cockburn, Boston University
Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto
Alex Oettl*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussant: Carlo Menon, STI Directorate, OECD & Bank of Italy

Ownership Structure of Vertical Research Collaboration: Empirical Analysis from an Incomplete Contract Perspective
Sadao Nagaoka, Hitotsubashi University
Discussant: Carlo Menon, STI Directorate, OECD & Bank of Italy

Subsidiary Entities and the Innovator's Dilemma
Kenneth Ayotte, Northwestern University School of Law
Discussant: Julie A. Carlson, Federal Trade Commission

State Governments as Financiers of Technology Startups: Implications for Firm Performance
Rosemarie Ziedonis*, University of Oregon
Bo Zhao, University of Michigan
Discussant: Colleen Chien, Santa Clara Law

 

Session Five: Human Capital and Innovation
Session Chair: John Howells, Aarhus University

Who Are User Entrepreneurs? Findings on Innovation, Founder Characteristics & Firm Characteristics
Sonali K. Shah, University of Washington
Sheryl Winston Smith, Temple University
E. J. Reedy*, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Discussant: Minyuan Zhao, University of Michigan

The Long-term Impact of Business Cycles on Innovation: Evidence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pian Shu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Minyuan Zhao, University of Michigan

R&D Coopetition: Information Sharing and Competition for Innovation
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania
Qingmin Liu*, Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Illoong Kwon, Seoul National University

The Impact of Universities on Local Economic Development: The Growth of the Early PC Software Industry
Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
Tom Cottrell*, University of Calgary
Discussant: Illoong Kwon, Seoul National University

 

Session Six: How Financing Affects Innovation
Session Chair: Kenneth Ayotte, Northwestern University School of Law

Venture Capital and the Diffusion of Knowledge
Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Columbia University
Discussant: Arvids A. Ziedonis, University of Oregon

Does Going Public Affect Innovation?
Shai Bernstein, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Discussant: Dennis Leyden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Credit Supply and Corporate Innovations
Mario Daniele Amore*, Copenhagen Business School
Cedric Schneider, Copenhagen Business School
Alminas Zaldokas, INSEAD
Discussant: S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University

The Dark Side of Analyst Coverage: The Case of Innovation
Jie (Jack) He*, University of Georgia
Xuan Tian, Indiana University
Discussant: S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University

 

Presenters are indicated with an *

Registration

Attendance for this conference is by invitation only.  To receive an invitation, please send a message with your name, affiliation, and full contact information to Derek Gundersen at: 
d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu.

 

Contact
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Searle Center , please visit www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter, call (312) 503-1811 or send an email to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.


 

Past Events

Fourth Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Thursday, June 16 - Friday, June 17, 2011
Agenda | Conference Photos | Papers

The goal of this conference is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern University's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to the economics and law of the entrepreneur. Panels cover research on Venture Capital and the Entrepreneur; Entrepreneur Law; Economic Growth and Development; Innovation and the Entrepreneur; and The Social Context of Entrepreneurship.

The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS). JEMS will publish a special issue on the economics of the entrepreneur.

 

Papers

"How Does the Influence of Founders and Investors Relate to Employee Compensation in Entrepreneurial Firms?"
Ola Bengtsson, University of Illinois
John R. M. Hand*, University of North Carolina

"Developing New Ideas: Spin-outs, Spinoffs or Internal Divisions"
Radoslawa Nikolowa, Queen Mary University of London

"Entrepreneurial Spawning and Firm Characteristics"
Michel A. Habib, University of Zurich
Ulrich Hege, HEC School of Management Paris
Pierre Mella-Barral*, EDHEC Business School

"Is Success Hereditary? Evidence on the Performance of Spawned Ventures"
Johannes M.H. Dick, Maastricht University
Katrin Hussinger*, Maastricht University
Boris Blumberg, Maastricht University
John Hagedoorn, Maastricht University

"Are All Academic Entrepreneurs Created Alike? Evidence from Germany"
Rajeev K. Goel*, Illinois State University
Christoph Grimpe, Copenhagen Business School and University of Zurich

"Licensing of University Science: Tacitness and the Impact of Invention and Governance Capability on Contract Type"
Reddi Kotha*, Singapore Management University
Pascale Crama, Singapore Management University
Tore Opsahl, Imperial College London
Gerard George, Imperial College London

"University Startups and Entrepreneurship: New Data, New Results"
Richard A. Jensen, University of Notre Dame
Michael Jones*, University of Notre Dame

"Research Output from University-Industry Collaborative Projects"
Albert Banal-Estañol, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and City University
Inés Macho-Stadler, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
David Pérez-Castrillo*, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

"The Impact of Business Environment Reforms on New Firm Registration"
Leora Klapper, The World Bank

"Innovativeness and Corporate Governance of New Ventures"
Dirk Czarnitzki, K.U. Leuven
Johannes M. H. Dick*, University of Maastricht
Katrin Hussinger, University of Maastricht and K.U. Leuven

"The Organization of R&D Within Firms: Measures, Characteristics and Consequences"
Ashish Arora, Duke University
Sharon Belenzon, Duke University
Luis A. Rios*, Duke University

"Business Partnerships and the Commercialization of Inventions"
Thomas Åstebro, HEC School of Management Paris
Carlos J. Serrano*, University of Toronto and NBER

"All Entrepreneurial Productivity Increases are Not Created Equal"
Arup Bose, Indian Statistical Institute
Debashis Pal*, University of Cincinnati
David E. M. Sappington, University of Florida

"Swinging for the Fences: Strategic Risk Taking in Entrepreneurship"
James Ostler, University of California, Los Angeles

"Experimentation and Learning in R&D Competition" (Abstract)
Heidrun C. Hoppe-Wewetzer, University of Hannover
Georgios Katsenos*, University of Hannover

"Innovation, Fast Seconds, and Patent Policy"
George Norman*, Tufts University
Lynne Pepall, Tufts University
Dan Richards, Tufts University

"Corporate Venture Capital, Value Creation, and Innovation"
Thomas J. Chemmanur*, Boston College
Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia
Xuan Tian, Indiana University

"How Do Firms Choose Legal Form of Organization?"
Rebel A. Cole, DePaul University

"Law and Innovation: Evidence from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act"
Ivan Png, National University of Singapore

"Beg, Borrow, and Deal? Entrepreneurship and Financing in New Firm Innovation"
Sheryl Winston Smith, Temple University

"Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?"
Saul Estrin, London School of Economics
Julia Korosteleva*, University College London
Tomasz Mickiewicz, University College London

Presenters are indicated with an *

 

 

Third Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Thursday, June 17 - Friday, June 18, 2010

The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern University 's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to the economics and law of the entrepreneur. Panels cover research on Venture Capital and the Entrepreneur; Entrepreneur Law; Economic Growth and Development; Innovation and the Entrepreneur; and The Social Context of Entrepreneurship.

The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director of the Searle Center and Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS). JEMS will publish a special issue on the economies of the entrepreneur.

2010 Entrepreneurship Agenda

"The Impact of the Financial Crisis on New Firm Creation" (co-authored with Inessa Love)
Leora Klapper, The World Bank

"The Bayh-Dole Act and Scientist Entrepreneurship at Universities" (co-authored with Taylor Aldridge)
David B. Audretsch, Indiana University and Max Planck Institute of Economics

"Public Policy and Business Creation in the United States" (co-authored with Dan Li, York University)
Douglas Cumming, York University - Schulich School of Business

"Consensual Spin-offs"
Simon Parker, University of Western Ontario
Mark Sanders, Utrecht University and Max Planck Institute of Economics

"University Spin-offs vs. other NTBFs: Productivity Differences at the Outset and Evolution"
Pedro Ortín-Ángel, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Basque Institute of Competitiveness

"Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation"
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Harvard Business School

Keynote Address The Neutralist View of Entrepreneurship
Dane Stangler, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

"Competing for Ideas: Matching and Contracting in the Venture Capital Market"
Veikko Thiele, Queen’s University
Jose M. Plehn-Dujowich, Temple University (coauthored with Konstantinos Serfes, Drexel University)

"Entrepreneurial Optimism, Credit Availability, and Cost of Financing: Evidence from U.S. Small Businesses"
Na Dai, SUNY at Albany
Vladimir Ivanov, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission

"On the Real Effects of Private Equity Investment: Evidence from New Business Creation" (co-authored by Peter Roosenbloom, Department of Finance, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)
Alexander Popov, European Central Bank, Financial Research Division (coauthored with Peter Roosenbloom, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)

"Venture Capital: Performance, Persistence, and Reputation"
Richard Smith, University of California, Riverside (coauthored with Roberto Pedace, Scripps College and Vijay Sathe, Claremont Graduate University)

"Banks versus Venture Capital: A Role for Nonmonetary Returns"
Eren Inci, Sabanci University – FASS (coauthored with Mehmet Barlo, Sabanci University - FASS)

"Staged Investments in Entrepreneurial Financing"
Korok Ray, Georgetown University

"The Transition to Entrepreneurship: Human Capital, Wealth and the Role of Liquidity Constraints"
Camilo Mondragón-Vélez, International Finance Corporation

"Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005 and Entrepreneurial Activity"
Yongwook Paik, University of Southern California

"Covenant Protections and Financial Contract Design: Evidence from Venture Capital Contracts"
Ola Bengtsson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

Second Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Thursday, June 11 - Friday, June 12, 2009

The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern University 's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to the economics and law of the entrepreneur. Panels cover research on Venture Capital and the Entrepreneur; Entrepreneur Law; Economic Growth and Development; Innovation and the Entrepreneur; and The Social Context of Entrepreneurship.

The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS). JEMS will publish a special issue on the economies of the entrepreneur.

2009 Entrepreneurship Agenda

"Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?"
Simon C. Parker, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario

"Serial Entrepreneurs and Venture Performance: Evidence from U. S. Venture-Capital-Financed Semiconductor Firms"
Yongwook Paik, University of California at Berkeley

"Incentives versus Synergies in Markets for Talent"
Alexander Galetovic, Universidad de los Andes (co-authored by Bharat N. Anand, Harvard Business School, and Alvaro Stein, Decapack)

"Incentives and Innovation: A Multi-tasking Approach"
Veikko Thiele, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

"The Impact of Innovation and Information Risk on Endogenous Growth"
Jose M. Plehn-Dujowich, Fox School of Business, Temple University

"Reputation Capital, Financial Capital, and Transition to Entrepreneurship in Knowledge-Based Industries"
Frédéric Loss, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Antoine Renucci, Université Paris-Dauphine

"The Impact of Personal Bankruptcy Law on Entrepreneurship"
Ye (George) Jia, University of Western Ontario

Keynote Address: Robert E. Litan, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

"Market Timing and Exit Choices of Venture‐Backed Firms: IPO v. Acquisition"
Eric Ball, Oracle Corporation and Claremont Graduate University
Hsin-Hui Chiu, Chapman University
Richard Smith, University of California Riverside and Claremont Graduate University

"Private Information and Bargaining Power in Venture Capital Financing"
Yrjö Koskinen, Boston University (co-authored by Michael J. Rebello and Jun Wang)

"How does Venture Capital Financing Improve Efficiency in Private Firms? A Look Beneath the Surface"
Thomas Chemmanur, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Karthik Krishnan, College of Business, Northeastern University

"Does Angel Participation Matter? An Analysis of Early Venture Financing"
Brent Goldfarb, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

"Entrepreneurship, Compensation and the Corporation"
Henry Manne, George Mason University Law School

"Patenting by Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Study"
Ted Sichelman, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, University of San Diego
Stuart J. H. Graham, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Who Has ‘The Right Stuff’? Human Capital, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change in China"
Charles E. Eesley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Entrepreneurship and Capital on American Indian Reservations: A Case for Rule of Law"
Terry L. Anderson, PERC, and Hoover Institution
Dominic P. Parker, Montana State University

"Geography and the Structure of Venture Capital Financing"
Xuan Tian, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

"The Geography of Venture Capital Contracts"
Ola Bengtsson, Cornell University
S. Abraham Ravid, Rutgers University and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

"Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization"
Robin Douhan, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

"Entrepreneurial Finance around the World: The Impact of the Business Environment on Financing Constraint"
Larry W. Chavis, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

 

First Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Wednesday, June 18 - Thursday, June 19, 2008

The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern University 's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to the economics and law of the entrepreneur. Panels cover research on Venture Capital and the Entrepreneur; Entrepreneur Law; Economic Growth and Development; Innovation and the Entrepreneur; and The Social Context of Entrepreneurship.

The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS). JEMS will publish a special issue on the economies of the entrepreneur.

2009 Entrepreneurship Agenda

Session One - Venture Capital and the Entrepreneur

"Competition between Informed Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs' Fund-Raising Strategy"
Carole Haritchabalet, Toulouse School of Economics

"Venture Capital Exit Rights"
Carsten Bienz, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance and Management, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Uwe Walz, Professor, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/ Main

"Financing Start-Ups"
Joaquin Poblete, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

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Session Two - Entrepreneur Law

"Law and Entrepreneurial Opportunities"
D. Gordon Smith, Glen L. Farr Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
Darian M. Ibrahim, Associate Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona

"The Effect of Litigation on Venture Capitalist Reputation"
Vladimir Ivanov, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas School of Business

"Schumpterian Law: Rethinking the Role of Law in Fostering Entrepreneurship"
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

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Keynote Address: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth
David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development and Director of the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University

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Session Four - Economic Growth and Development

"Rent Seeking, Market Structure and Growth"
Daniel Brou, Ph.D Candidate, Economics, Columbia University

"Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction"
Milo Bianchi, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Paris School of Economics

"Bureaucratic Start-Up Costs, Entrepreneurial Capital, and Sectoral Growth"
Christian Fons-Rosen, London School of Economics

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Session Five - Innovation, Contracts, and the Entrepreneur

"Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D"
Nisvan Erkal, Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne, Department of Economics

"The Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers: Stars, Slugs, and the Small Firm Effect"
Daniel W. Elfenbein, Assistant Professor of Organization and Strategy, Washington University in St. Louis

"Relational Contract and Replaceability"
Yuk-fai Fong, Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Jin Li, Senior Lecturer/Donald P. Jacobs Scholar , Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Peter Andrew Schnabl, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Department of Economics

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Keynote Address: Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School

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Session Seven - The Social Context of Entrepreneurship

"Group Status and Entrepreneurship"
Simon C. Parker, Head of Department, Department of Economics & Finance, Durham University
C. Mirjam van Praag, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam

"American Indian Entrepreneurs: Unique Challenges, Unlimited Potential"
Robert J. Miller, Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School

"A Law and Economics Perspective on Entrepreneurship in China's Marketizing Economy"
Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford

"Legality and Venture Governance Around the World"
Douglas Cumming, Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, and Ontario Research Chair, York University Schulich School of Business
Uwe Walz, Professor, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/ Main

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Contact
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Searle Center, please visit www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter, call (312) 503-1811 or send an email to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.