ECON and CEBR Conference on Success in Entrepreneurship 11 February 2010

This conference is motivated by the increasing attention paid to success in entrepreneurship by both academics and policy makers. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from different disciplines within Economics who conduct research within entrepreneurship.

The conference is a one-day event organized around presentations by two invited keynote speakers. The presentations of the keynote speakers have cross-cutting nature and of interest to most researchers working with entrepreneurship. In addition to this, a number of parallel sessions will be reserved for more narrow issues of relevance to a more focused audience.

Organizers:

Moira Daly, Copenhagen Business School

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, U. of Southern Denmark and CEBR

Søren Bo Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School and CEBR

Anders Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School and CEBR

Program:

08:30 – 09:00: Registration and welcome

09:00 – 10:30: Invited Lecture (PH408).

Manju Puri (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
"The Economic Psychology of Entrepreneurs"

10:45 – 12:15: Session:
The Nature of Entrepreneurs (PH408)
Chair – Moira Daly:

10:45 – 11:15:
Simon Parker (Richard Ivey School of Business)
“Serial Entrepreneurship”

11:15 – 11:45:

Ari Hyytinen (School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä)
“Entrepreneurial optimism and survival”

11:45 – 12:15

Hans K. Hvide (University of Aberdeen)
“ Are founders non-substitutable? Evidence from nascent firms where a founder dies ”

12:15 – 13:15: Lunch

13:30 – 15:00: Invited lecture (PH408).
Edward P. Lazear (Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hoover Institute)“Leadership and Entrepreneurship: A personnel economics approach”

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee

15:30 – 17:00: Parallel sessions:

A. Entrepreneurs and Education (PH408)
Chair– Nikolaj Malchow-Møller:

15:30 – 16:00:

Mirjam van Praag (ACE and University of Amsterdam)
“TBA”

16:00 – 16:30:

Jens Iversen (University of Southern Denmark)
“Entrepreneurial Human Capital”

16.30 – 17.00

Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard (Research Institute of Industrial Economics)
“When do independent innovators make the break-through innovations?”

B: Income in entrepreneurship and wage employment (PH407).
Chair – Søren Bo Nielsen

16:00 – 16:30:

Moira Daly (Copenhagen Business School)
“Another look at the choice to try self-employment: a matching approach”

16:30 – 17:00:

Knut Roed (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)
“Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns”

17:00 – 17:30:

Martin Junge (CEBR)
“Role Models in Entrepreneurship”

17:00 – 17:15: Break

17:15 – 17:30: Closing

Speakers

Keynote speakers:

• Edward P. Lazear (Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hoover Institute)
• Manju Puri (Fuqua School of Business)

Presenters:

• Ari Hyytinen (School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä)
• Chloe Tergiman (New York University)
• Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard (Research Institute of Industrial Economics)
• Hans K. Hvide (University of Aberdeen)
• Jens Iversen (University of Southern Denmark)
• Knut Røed (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)
• Mirjam van Praag (ACE and University of Amsterdam)
• Moira Daly (Copenhagen Business School)
• Simon Parker (Richard Ivey School of Business)