Fourth Annual

Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER)

College of Management Room 311 AB

December 3-5, 2004

AGENDA

 

Sponsored by:

Georgia Tech College of Management

Georgia Tech CIBER

Emory University Economics Department

National Science Foundation IGERT Grant

 

 

Friday, December 3          Paper – Sessions, College of Management

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM             John M. de Figueiredo, Princeton University, Surviving the Gales of Creative Destruction: The Determinants of Product (Peter Roberts, Emory University)

2:00 PM – 2:50 PM             Bronwyn Hall, University of California – Berkeley, Exploring the Patent Explosion (Wes Cohen, Duke University)

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM             *Celestine Chukumba, University of Notre Dame, University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups (Arvids Ziedonis, University of Michigan)

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM             Paula Stephan, Georgia State University, *Matt Higgins, Jerry Thursby, Emory University, Capitalizing the Human Capital of University Scientists: The Case of Biotechnology IPOs (Sunil Wahal, Emory University)

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM             Reception and Dinner, Marie Thursby’s House, 910 Springdale Rd. NE (in between Ponce de Leon and North Decatur)

 

 

Saturday, December 4      Paper - Sessions, College of Management

8:00 AM – 8:50 AM            Brent Goldfarb, University of Maryland, Tacit Knowledge, Uncertainty and Startups (Richard Jensen, University of Notre Dame)

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM            Maryann Feldman, University of Toronto and Janet Berkovitz, Duke University, Fishing Upstream: Firm Strategic Research Alliances with Universities (Frank Rothaermel, Georgia Institute of Technology)

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM         Dan Elfenbein, University of California – Berkeley, Contract Structure and Performance of Technology Transfer Agreements: Evidence from University Licenses (Reinhilde Veugelers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

11:00 AM – 11:50AM          Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto, Defying Distance: Examining the Influence of the Diaspora on Scientific Knowledge Flows (Paula Stephan, Georgia State University)

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM           Lunch

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM             Ashish Arora, Carnegie Mellon University, Marco Ceccagnoli, INSEAD, Patent Protection, Complementary Assets, and Firms’ Incentives for Technology Licensing (David Hsu, University of Pennsylvania)

2:00 PM – 2:50 PM             Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology and David Mowery, University of California – Berkeley, Does the Market Value Software Patents? A First Look (Peter Thompson, Florida International University)

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM             Fiona Murray, MIT Sloan School of Management, Ideas or Inventors? Examining the Determinants of Early Stage Venture Capital Investments in Biotechnology Firms (Maryann Feldman, University of Toronto)

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM             David Benson, Rosemarie Ziedonis, University of Michigan, Try Before They Buy: Corporate Venture Capital and the Acquisition of Technology Start-Ups (Peggy Lee, Emory University)

7:00 PM                              Dinner, Toast Restaurant, 817 W. Peachtree Street Suite E-125 (the restaurant is located on the backside of the Biltmore Hotel)

 

 

Sunday, December 5         Paper - Sessions, College of Management

8:30 AM – 9:20 AM              Robert Lowe, Claudia Gonzalez-Brambila, Carnegie Mellon University, Faculty Entrepreneurs and Research Productivity: A First Look (Jerry Thursby, Emory University)

9:30 AM – 10:20 AM          Waverly Ding, University of Chicago, Does Science Chase Money? – The Impact of Industry Research on the Selection of Research Topics Among Academic Scientists (Atul Nerkar, Columbia University)

10:30 AM – 11:20 AM          Kira Markiewicz Fabrizio, University of California - Berkeley, Firm Capabilities and Absorptive Capacity: Implications for Exploitation of Public Science and the Rate of Knowledge Exploitation (Robert Lowe, Carnegie Mellon University)

11:30 AM – 12:20 PM         Bhaven Sampat, Georgia Institute of Technology, Genomic Patenting by Academic Researchers: Bad For Science? (Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:30 PM                            Wrap-Up and Box Lunch