April 29, 2026: Megan Lawrence (Vanderbilt University) - presented "Are MBAs Good Entrepreneurs?" (with Evan Rawley and Kylie Hwang)
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April 22, 2026: Supradeep Dutta (Rutgers University - Camden) - presented "Closing the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Do Government Subsidies Help?"
April 8, 2026: Sukhun Kang (University of California Santa Barbara) presented "Data Privacy Regulation and Innovation" (with Jennifer Kao, UCLA).
March 25, 2026: Mahka Moeen (University of Wisconsin) - presented - "From Founders' Knowledge to Economic Value in Academic and Employee Startups"
March 11, 2026: Anna Lamin (Northeastern University) - will present - "How Technological Shifts Affect Co-location Decisions: Evidence from the Bangalore Software Industry". Here is a link to the presentation.
February 18, 2026: Jay Habegger (University of Maryland) - presented "Searching for Schumpeter beyond Sand Hill Road: Estimating Innovation Ventures uising Multiple Systems Estimation."
February 4, 2026: Jue (Kate) Wang (Penn State University) presented “Anchoring Risk in the Participatory Regulation Process: How Engaging Risk-Bearing Stakeholders Shapes Lobbying Effectiveness”.
January 28, 2026: Larisa Cioaca (Tulane University) presented “The Private Value of Innovating for the Government.” (with Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, and Elia Ferracuti).
November 19, 2025: Jing Deng (Arizona State University) - presented “Should I Stay or Should I Go: Why High-Tech Firms Leave Agglomerations” (with Maryann Feldman and Janet Bercovitz). Here is a link to the presentation.
November 5, 2025: Nikhil Kalathil (Carnegie Mellon University) - presented “The Realized Returns from Varieties of Agglomeration for New Manufacturing Firms” (with Lauren Lanahan). Here is a link to the presentation.
October 8, 2025: (University of Washington) - presented ""Strategic Positioning and Accelerating Regulatory Clearance for New Ventures" Here is a link to the presentation video. Here is the working paper.
October 1, 2025: Astrid Ulv Thomsen (Copenhagen Business School) presented "From the Ivory Tower to Capitol Hill: Which Academics Get a Voice in Congress?" (with Yotam Sofer). Here is a link to the presentation video.
September 17, 2025: Carmelo Cennamo (Copenhagen Business School) - presented "User attention and targeted advertising in social media platforms: When does attention brokerage benefit users?" Here is a link to the presentation video.
September 3, 2025: Christopher Esposito (UCLA) - presented "A stress test of he U.S. Knowledge Supply Chain". Here is a link to the full working paper. Here is a link to the presentation video.
April 9, 2025: Na Zou (University of Bath) presented "Surviving communist revolutions: Entrepreneurial culture transmission and the rebound of entrepreneurship"
March 12, 2025: Jean Joohyun Oh (Carnegie Mellon) presented "The Class Gap in Venture Capital Funding: The Effect of Elite Private High School Education"
Geoffrey Borchhardt (U Oregon) presented "Good jobs, bad jobs, and the long-term earnings consequences of self-employment"
January 15, 2025: Jeff Macher (Georgetown) - presented "Does Region Scientific Leadership Translate Into Lasting Innovation Advantage?"
November 6, 2024: Sina Khoshsokhan (Colorado) - presented “The costs they are a-rising: Commercialization costs and the innovation process in drug development.”
October 9, 2024: Jay Habegger (University of Maryland) - presented "Searching in the dark: Regional disparitites in startups' initial equity financings" (with F Honore and R Aggarwal).
September 18, 2024: Zhuoxuan (Fanny) Li (Postoctoral Student, Stanford) - presented "Learning-by-advising? Startup Learning as an Advice-giver in Accelerators"
May 15: Cornelia Storz (Goethe University Frankfurt) - presented "Government R&D Subsidies, TMT Diversity, and Innovation". Andreas König (University of Passau) discussed.
May 1: Daniel Goetzel (Entrepreneurial Lead, National Science Foundation) - presented "NSF Engines, the Strategy Around It, and Early Learnings"
April 18: Deepak Somaya (University of Illinois) - presented "Data Privacy, Scaling, and Firm Scope: Evidence from the GDPR" (with J. You). Annabelle Gawer (University of Surrey) discussed.
March 20: Wendy Bradley (Southern Methodist University) - presented "Competitive Dynamism in Nascent Markets: Trademarks and Superstar Firm Entry in the Metaverse" (with Julian Kolev, USPTO). Mahka Moeen (University of Wisconsin) discussed. Paper can be downloaded here.
March 7: Seungah Sarah Lee (New York University - Abu Dhabi) - presented "Between Global Ambitions and Local Challenges: How Entrepreneurship Supporting Organizations Navigate Institutional Complexity as Ecosystem Builders in the Arab Gulf". Ryan Coles (University of Connecticut) discussed.
February 28: Bekhzod Khoshimov (University of Wisconsin) - presented "Do Economic Shocks Affect Willingness to Become an Entrepreneur?" Rem Koning (Harvard Business School) discussed
February 15: Pontus Braunerhjelm (Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum) - will present "Unleashing Society's Innovative Capacity. An Integrated Policy Framework"
February 1: Min Jung Kim (University of Illinois) presented "Knowledge Interdependence as a Double-edged Sword for Firm Innovation: The Role of Adverse Regulatory Events" (with Jingya You). Keyvan Vakili (London Business School) discussed.
January 11: Yanbo Wang (University of Hong Kong) presented "The Contribution of Chinese Science to US Technological Advancement: Evidence from Patent Citation of Academic Papers" (with Junhan Wang and Xibao Li). Waverly Ding (U. Maryland) discussed.
December 13: Nur Ahmed (MIT) - presented "Scientific Labor Market and Firm-level Appropriation Strategy in Artificial Intelligence Research"
December 7: Sharique Hasan (Duke University) - presented "The commercial potential of science and its realization: Evidence from a measure using a large language model"
November 15: Natasha Overmeyer (University of Oregon) presented "Selling Snake Oil and Unicorns: Performative Standardization in the Evaluation of Early-Stage Venture Ideas". Temitope Oladimeji (University of Massachussetts - Amherst) discussed.
November 1: Ouafaa Hmaddi (City University of New York) presented "Accelerators or brakes? A field experiment on encouraging entrepreneurship in Morocco" (with Peter Younkin). Valentina Assenova (Wharton) discussed.
October 18: Ryan Allen (University of Washington) - presented "Market Size Inversion: How Diffusion Dynamics Obfuscate the Potential Market Size of Novel Innovations"
October 10: Jiayi Bao (Texas A&M University) - presented "Makerspaces, venture social focus, and resource acquisition" (with Joonho Oh and Bowen Lou). Daniel Armanios (University of Oxford) discussed.
September 28: Annamaria Conti (Instituto de Empresa) presented "The hidden costs of fairness in platform markets" (with Juan Santalo, Instituto de Empresa). Kevin Boudreau (Northeastern University) discussed. Paper available here.
September 20: Paul Hünermund (Copenhagen Business School) - presented "The effect of publicly co-funded industry-science collaboration on scientific production” (with Cindy Lopes-Bento - KU Leuven, National Research Fund Luxembourg, and Maikel Pellens (KU Leuven). Dima Nedelcheva Yankova (INGENIO) discussed.
September 6: Johanna Glauber (Instituto de Empresa) - presented “Safety in precedence: The strategic timing of bad news” (with Julien Jourdan, HEC). Anastasiya Zavyalova (Rice University) discussed
May 10: Simon Parker (Ivey Business School) - presented "Women empowerment and female entrepreneurship: Evidence from a natural experiment in India” (with Danny Chung). Jorge Guzman (Columbia U.) discussed.
April 20: Chiara Spina (INSEAD - Singapore) - presented "When do Entrepreneurs Benefit from Acting Like Scientists? A Field Experiment in the UK" (with Elena Novelli). Valentina Tartari (Copenhagen Business School) discussed.
March 30: Valentina Tartari (Copenhagen Business School) presented "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Academic Performance” (with S. Cairo and S. Dalum). Alexandra Graddy-Reed (U Southern California) discussed
March 8: Ryan Coles (U. of Connecticut) - presented "The gender gap and entrepreneurial barriers to entry in Mexico" (with G Raines and P Polhill). HC Kongsted discussed
February 14: Theodore Vladasel (U. of Pompeu Fabra) - presented "Are entrepreneurs more upwardly mobile?" (with M Lindquist).
February 9: Florenta Teodoridis (USC) - presented "Consequences of an R&D division of labor on complementary innovation: Evidence from quantum computing" (with A Goldfarb and J Lu).
January 25: Shivaram Devarakonda (Tilburg U.) - presented "Probabilistic Patents and Venture Capital Financing: Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry" (with V Chila).
December 7: Elizabeth Embry (U. of Colorado) - presented "An entrepreneurial approach to cross-sector partnerships: The case of the Boulder Energy Challenge" (with Jeffrey York).
November 16: Khonika Gope (Stanford) presented "The Impact of Accelerator Training on the Career Trajectory of Individual Entrepreneurs".
November 1: Chuck Eesley (Stanford) presented "Confluence of Tech and Talent: Return Migration and Rural Online Entrepreneurship" (paper with W. Koo). Elena Kulchina (N. Carolina State U) discussed.
October 20: Robert Eberhart (UCLA) presented "A Legacy of the Samurai: How Communities Shape Venture Outcomes" (paper with R. Rottner and M. Lounsbury). Ted Zoller (UNC, Chapel Hill) discussed.
October 13: Christopher Esposito (U Chicago) presented "The Speed of Knowledge and the Organization of Invention" (with F van der Wouden). Nicholas Pairolaro (USPTO, Economist, Office of the Chief Economist) discussed.
September 29: Michael Park (U Minnesota) presented "Caring but sharing unintentionally: Lobbying for innovation and the leakage of knowledge". Andy Wu (Harvard U) discussed
June 29: Supradeep Dutta (Rutgers - Camden) and Jenna Rodrigues (Minerva Lab - USC) presented "Government Funding Innovation Amid Uncertainty: The Case of COVID-19 and NIH SBIR Grant Selection" (with Timothy B Folta)
May 31: Pietro Santoleri (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre) presented "The Causal Effects of R&D Grants: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity" (with Andrea Mina, Alberto Di Minin, and Irene Martelli).
May 11: Donna Ginther (U. Kansas) presented "The rise of teamwork and career prospects in academic science" (with Mabel Andalon, Catherine de Fontenay, and Quanghui Lim), to be discussed by James Evans (U Chicago).
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April 20: Lisa Hehenberger (ESADE) presented "Pathways towards emancipation: Identity work and social entrepreneurship by and for marginalized communities" (with Asma Naimi, Sophie Bacq and Jill Kickul); discussed by Violina Rindova (USC).
March 30: Daniel Armanios (U Oxford) presented "Certifying need: Can expanding certification access help ventures in impoverished communities?" (with Lauren Lanahan, Amol Joshi, and Ouafaa Hmadd); discussed by Wesley Sine (Cornell U).
March 9: Lauren Lanahan (U Oregon) presented "Estimating spillovers from publicly funded R&D: Evidence from the U.S. Department of Energy" (with Kyle Myers, Harvard Business School)
March 1: A panel of top scholars presenting their research (see below), plus a discussion on research opportunities also involving Andrew Toole (Chief Economist, USPTO) and Andrea Belz (SBIR Division Director, NSF).
(UNC-Chapel Hill)
“Dismantling the Mills: Evaluating the Tail of the Distribution of Government R&D Recipients”
(Stanford U)
“Antitrust against a dominant platform: What happens to innovation of entrepreneurial firms?”
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