Understanding Technology Entrepreneurship and its Effects on Social Institutions

An intimate gathering for UW-Madison's Scholars

Conference material (papers and presentations)

Regions, Universities, and Institutions: Links to International Technology Entrepreneurship

Steve Malpezzi, Professor, Real Estate and Land Economics
Myths and Realities of Local Economic Development

Anne Miner, Professor, Management and Human Resources
Organizational Vicarious Learning and International Patterns in University Start-ups: a Preliminary Conversation and Related Evidence

Jon Eckhardt, Assistant Professor, Management and Human Resources
A Study of the Relationship Between Public Innovation and Commercial
Entrepreneurship in Nascent Technology Markets

Seismic and Emergent Changes in University Commercialization Patterns

Brad Barham, Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Land Grant Agricultural Research in Transition? (Presentation only)

Daniel Kleinman, Professor, Rural Sociology
The Commercialization of the University in the Age of Neoliberalism

Jeremy Foltz, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Agricultural Biotechnology: Leader or Fellow Traveler in University
Commercialization? (Abstract only)
Presentation

Institutions and the Creation of Technology and Markets

Guanming Shi, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Bundling and Licensing of Genes in Agricultural Biotechnology

Sanjay Jain, Assistant Professor, Management and Human
Institutional Entrepreneurship in Technology Standards Evolution: The
Case of the Ethernet

Gordon Smith, Professor, Law
Law & Entrepreneurship: Do Courts Matter?

Underlying Processes and Regional Patterns

Mark Suchman, Professor, Sociology
The Contracting Universe: Law Firms and the Evolution of Venture
Capital Financing in Silicon Valley
Presentation

Masako Ueda, Assistant Professor, Finance
Venture Capital and Productivity
Venture Capital and Industrial Innovation" (Related)

Don Nichols, Professor, Economics/La Follette School of Public Affairs
Employment in High Income Occupations in Wisconsin