Workshop on High Tech Entrepreneurship: Implications for Science Policy and Education

Documents:

• Background Text and Workshop Program
• Abstracts

Presentations:

• Roy Thurik, CASBEC (Erasmus University Rotterdam), EIM (Zoetermeer) and Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Max Planck Institute (Jena), Germany – ‘Entreprenomics’ principles, perspectives, problems, process, policies and Portugal

• Steven Klepper, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA – Entry and Entrants in Innovative New Industries

• Rui Baptista, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany –Longitudinal Studies of Entrepreneurs and Firms: Pre-history and Post-history

• Ashish Arora, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA – From underdogs to tigers? The rise of the SW industry in some emerging economies

• David Audretsch, Director, Institute for Development Strategies, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development on long-term leave from Indiana University, USA – The Theory of Knowledge Spillover Entrepreneurship & Economic Growth

• Simon C. Parker, Durham Business School, United Kingdom – Why Do Small Firms Produce the Entrepreneurs?

• David A. Hounshell, Roderick Professor of Technology and Society, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA – The Dynamics of Old-Economy Industrial Research and Development and the Entrepreneurial Economy: History, Strategy, and Policy

• Frédéric Delmar, EM Lyon, France, and Erik Wetter, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden – The Predictive Strength of Absorptive Capacity on New Firm Performance

Final Policy Paper