Conferences & Seminars




West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship
The West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship is being sponsored this year by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Univ. of Washington) , Stanford Technology Ventures Program (Stanford University), Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship (University of Oregon), Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (USC), Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (UC Irvine), and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
A one-day Doctoral Student Workshop will be held prior to the research symposium, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. We invite doctoral students to submit applications to attend this workshop. Sessions will focus on technology entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on contemporary work in the field. The workshop will be led by Riitta Katila, Stanford Univ.; Andrew Nelson and Taryn Stanko, Univ. of Oregon; and Sonali Shah, Univ. of Washington. Faculty presenters include Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford Univ.; Suresh Kotha, Univ. of Washington; Alan Meyer, Nandini Rajagopalan, Univ. of Southern California; Kaye Schoonhoven, UC Irvine; and others.
STVP Research Seminar
The STVP seminar series has merged with the SIEPR seminars.
Seminars take place on Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30 in the 3rd Floor Conference Room, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building at 366 Galvez Street.
STVP organizes a quarterly informal brown bag lunch seminar to discuss current research topics in the areas of strategy, organization theory, and entrepreneurship in technology-based companies. Speakers include students and faculty members of the center plus colleagues from other departments at Stanford and other universities.
Fall 2011 Schedule
- 10/5
Rosemarie Ziedonis, University of Oregon
Job Hopping in the Shadow of Patent Enforcement, joint with Martin Ganco and Rajshree Agarwal - 10/19
Matt Marx, MIT
Regional Disadvantage? Non-compete Agreements and Brain Drain, joint with Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming - 11/2
Alex Field, Santa Clara University
Chained Index Methods and Productivity Growth during the Depression
(Seminar is joint with Social Science History Workshop, SSHW) - 11/16
Sonali Shah, University of Washington
Innovation, Social Structure and the Emergence of New Industries, joint with Cyrus Mody - 11/30
Lisa Cook, Michigan State University, Council of Economic Advisors
TBA - 12/14
Paul David, Stanford University
Optimal Transition Paths toward Global Climate Stabilization: Implications for Science and Technology Policies and their Timing, joint with Adriaan van Zon, Luc Soete and Bronwyn Hall