Seminars & Conferences

West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship

The 6th West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship is being sponsored this year by Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (University of Washington), Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (USC), and Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship (University of Oregon). The theme is "Technology Entrepreneurship: New Ventures and Established Corporations."

Call for Applicants: Doctoral Student Workshops on Technology Entrepreneurship
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 Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford Univ.; Riitta Katila, Stanford Univ.; Suresh Kotha, Univ. of Washington; Alan Meyer, Univ. of Oregon; and Nandini Rajagopalan, Univ. of Southern California.

STVP Research Seminar

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.

AUTUMN QUARTER 2007
Contact: Emily Cox, emilycox [-at-] stanford.edu

Thursday, October 11 2:00-3:15 p.m. Terman 217	Christopher Tucci (EPFL) Title TBA
Thursday, October 18 12:30-1:45 p.m. Terman 453	Stefan Meisiek (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Planning, Finding or Opening?: Artful Approaches to Organizational Problems
Friday, October 26 12:15 p.m. Terman 453	STVP Fall Kickoff Lunch
Thursday, December 6 12:30 p.m. Terman 217	Hayagreeva Rao (Stanford GSB)

SPRING QUARTER 2007
Contact: Nathan Furr, nfurr [-at-] stanford.edu

Thursday, May 10 12:15-1:15 p.m. Terman 453	Jeff Dyer (Brigham Young) with David Bryce and Nathan Furr Leaping to New Markets: The Relative Importance of History, Learning, and Dynamic Capabilities
Wednesday, May 23 12:15-1:15 p.m. Terman 498	David Hsu (Wharton) with Rosemarie Ziedonis The Signaling Value of Patents: Evidence from Semiconductor Start-Ups

WINTER QUARTER 2007
Contact: Nathan Furr, nfurr [-at-] stanford.edu

Thursday, January 11 12:30-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Kick-off Session
Thursday, January 25 12:30-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Research Forum
Thursday, February 8 12:30-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Sam Garg (Stanford MS&E) Sante Fe Institute's Summer School on Complexity Theory
Thursday, February 22 12:30-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Ben Hallen and Jason Davis (Stanford MS&E) Job Market Wisdom
Thursday, March 8 12:30-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Jenny Kuan (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research) "How to Build a Collaborative Network: Evidence from 1970s Venture Capital"

AUTUMN QUARTER 2006
Contact: Sam Garg, samgarg [-at-] stanford.edu

Thursday, October 19 12:15-1:30 p.m. Terman 217	Jesper Sorensen (Stanford GSB) Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurship
Thursday, November 16 12:15-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Benjamin Hallen (Stanford MS&E) The Origin of the Network Positions of New Organizations: From Whom are Entrepreneurs Likely to Receive their First Investments
Thursday, November 30 12:15-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Jason Davis (Stanford MS&E) Collaborative Innovation, Organizational Symbiosis, and the Embeddedness of Strategy
Thursday, December 7 12:15-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Gabriel Szulanski (INSEAD) Template Use and the Effectiveness of Knowledge Transfer

SPRING QUARTER 2006
Location: Terman 453
Contact: Eric Li-Chain Chen, elchen [-at-] stanford.edu

Thursday, April 20 12:15-1:15 p.m. Terman 453	Jared Curhan (MIT)
Tuesday, April 24 3-4 p.m. Terman 453	Quy Huy (INSEAD)
Thursday, May 25 12 p.m. Terman TBD	Brian Uzzi (Northwestern)
Monday, June 8 12:15-1:15 p.m. Terman 453	Pamela Hinds (Stanford)

WINTER QUARTER 2006
Location: Terman 453
Contact: Emily Cox, emilycox [-at-] stanford.edu

Tuesday, Jan. 31 2-3 p.m. Terman 453	Michael Jacobides (London Business School)
Tuesday, Feb. 21 2-3 p.m. Terman 453	Ralph Maurer
Monday, Mar. 6 12:30-1:30 p.m. Terman 453	Ben Hallen
Tuesday, Mar. 7 12:15-1:15 p.m. Terman 453	Nathan Furr

AUTUMN QUARTER 2005
Contact: Ben Hallen, hallen [-at-] stanford.edu

Tuesday, Oct 11 12:15-1:15 p.m. Terman 453	STVP Kickoff Lunch
Friday, Oct 28 12:15-1:15 p.m. Terman 453	Maryann Feldman (University of Toronto)
Friday, Oct 28 2:15–3:30 p.m. Terman 217	Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao (Stanford GSB)
Tuesday, Nov 8 12:15–3:25 p.m. Terman 453	Kyle Mayer (USC) Designing contracts that help develop inter-firm relationships: The use of extendibility provisions in information technology contracts (with Libby Weber)
Monday, Nov 14 10:00–11:00 a.m. Terman 453	Mary Tripsas (Harvard. At MIT for 2005-2006) Abandoning Innovation in Emerging Industries (with Rajshree Agarwal and Barry Bayus)
Tuesday, Nov 29 12:15–1:15 p.m.	Tammy Madsen (Santa Clara)