Technology Entrepreneurship & Institutions

Contemporary & International Research

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June 2008

Conference Advisors

• Pam Haunschild (UT Austin)
• Paul Hirsch (Northwestern)
• Daniel Kleinman (UW-Madison)

• Wes Sine (Cornell)
• Gordon Smith (BYU)
• Marie Thursby (Georgia Tech)
• Lynne Zucker (UCLA)

Presentations by Faculty in Many Disciplines

Leading researchers from around the world in a variety of disciplines will participate. Attendees come from key scholarly areas, including: Law, Finance, Sociology, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Entrepreneurship, Political Sciences and more.

Key Research Questions

• How do specific webs of laws, rules, and norms influence technology entrepreneurship?
• How do efforts to promote technology entrepreneurship themselves influence long-term changes in the institutional settings in which it occurs?

Event Details

The conference hotels are the DoubleTree in downtown Madison near to State Street and The Dahlman Campus Inn on Langdon.

A preliminary draft of the conference schedule will be available for download shortly.

Venue - Pyle Center
Date & Time - Monday, June 9 & Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The conference will be held again in Madison along the shores of Lake Mendota. For more information on Madison and summer activities, festivals and other happenings, please Useful Info.

Support

INSITE and its partners would like to gratefully acknowledge the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy at UW-Madison for its support of critical entrepreneurship research and this seminar series. Additional support provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for the 2008 annual conference.