Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference Presentations

Following are presentation slides from the recent Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship conference held at the Kauffman Foundation September 28 - 30, 2005. To view the presentations, click on the titles (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free download).

   
Wednesday, September 28 Dinner and Welcoming Address 
7:30 P.M. "Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship" 
Town Square Carl J. Schramm
  President and CEO, Kauffman Foundation
   
Thursday, September 29 Plenary Address 
8:30 - 10:00 A.M. "Our Broken Patent System"
Town Square Professor Josh Lerner
  Harvard University
   
10:30 - 12:00 noon Women in Science and Technology Commercialization #1 
Session 1 Chair: Professor Monica Gaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Paseo Room  
  "Scientists' Participation in University Research Centers: What are the Gender Differences?"
  Professor Elizabeth Corley, Arizona State University
  Professor Monica Gaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology
   
  "Gender Patterns of Research and Licensing Activity of Science and Engineering Faculty"
  Professor Jerry Thursby, Emory University
  Professor Marie Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology
   
  "Quality versus Quantity: Women Patenting in the Life Sciences"
  Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Stanford University
  Professor Laurel Smith-Doerr, Boston University
   
10:30 - 12:00 noon Academic Entrepreneurship #1 
Session 2 Chair: Professor Janet Bercovitz, University of Illinois
Brookside Room  
  "The Need for More Integrative University Strategies to Advance Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
  Professor Mary Walshok, University of California at San Diego
   
  "Is Academic Entrepreneurship a Team Sport?"
  Professor Janet Bercovitz, University of Illinois
  Professor Maryann Feldman, University of Toronto
   
  "Commercializing Cohen-Boyer: 1980-1997"
  Professor Maryann Feldman, University of Toronto
  Alessandra Colaianni, Duke University
  Kang Liu, University of Toronto
   
10:30 - 12:00 noon Enhancing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Israel
Session 3 Chair: Professor Miriam Erez, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Troost Room  
  "Technology Transfer in Israel: The Magnet Program, Technological Incubators, and Academic IP Commercialization"
  Orna Berry, Gemini Israel Funds and Former Chief Scientist of Israel
   
  "A Process to Enhance Entrepreneurship and the Expected Value of Patents in Universities"
  Professor Uzi DeHaan, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  Professor Miriam Erez, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  Professor Avi Fiegenbaum, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  Ella Miron, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  Tali Sivan, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
   
  "Innovation in the R&D Industry: Effects of Leadership, Organizational Culture, and Management Practices"
  Professor Miriam Erez, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  Ella Miron, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  Dr. Eitan Naveh, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  Vered Segal, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
   
  "An Iron Cage or the Final Stage? Intensive Product R&D and the Evolution of the Israeli Software Industry"
  Dr. Dan Breznitz, MIT
   
  "Bridging between Centers of Knowledge and Policymakers"
  Professor Nadav Liron, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
   
10:30 - 12:00 noon Incubators and Research Parks #1 
Session 4 Chair: Ellen Hemmerly, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Westport Room  
  Roundtable on "The Importance of Incubators to Successful Research Park Development"
(click on each speaker's name to view presentations)
  Speakers:
  Gregory Deason, Purdue University
  Marcia Mellitz, The Center for Emerging Technologies
  Steven Carter, Iowa State University
  Dr. Ellen Hemmerly, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
   
10:30 - 12:00 noon Best Practices in Technology Transfer 
Session 5 Chair: Professor Denis Gray, North Carolina State University
Rockhill Room  
  "The Decision to Join a Cooperative Research Center: Exploring the Role of Center Marketing Practices and Firm Decisions Making"
  Professor Denis Gray, North Carolina State University
  Drew Rivers, North Carolina State University
   
  "Best Practices and Future Trends in Providing Support for Federal Laboratory Technology Commercialization Programs"
  Courtney Price, VentureQuest Ltd.
  Dr. Erik Monsen, Max Planck Institute
   
  "Using Public Company Equity to Facilitate University Technology Transfer"
  Dr. Clifford Gross, UTEK Corporation
   
12:15 - 1:45 P.M. Lunch and Keynote Speaker 
Town Square  
  "Bayh-Dole After 25 Years"
  Professor David Mowery
  University of California at Berkeley
   
2:00 - 3:30 Women in Science and Technology Commercialization #2
Session 1 Chair: Professor Shirley Jamieson, University of Cambridge
Paseo Room  
  "The Impact of Self-Efficacy on Mid-Career Women Advancing Innovation Through Technology Entrepreneurship"
  Professor David Good, University of Cambridge
   
  "MEETS: A Short Course for Developing Skills and Self-Efficiency in Mid-Career Women"
  Professor Sarah Cooper, University of Stratchclyde and the Cambridge-MIT Institute
   
2:00 - 3:30 Academic Entrepreneurship #2
Session 2 Chair: Professor Donald Siegel, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute
Brookside Room  
  "Faculty Entrepreneurs and Research Productivity: Does Entrepreneurship Imporve or Distract University Research?"
  Professor Robert Lowe, Carnegie Mellon University
  Professor Claudia Gonzalez-Brambila, Carnegie Mellon University
   
  "The Performance of University Spin-Offs: Evidence from Venture Capital Data"
  Dr. Junfu Zhang, Public Policy Institute of California
   
  "Entrepreneurial Firms and Patents: Entry Deterrence or Entry Assistance"
  Professor Bronwyn Hall, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
  Nathan Miller, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
  Professor David Mowery, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
   
2:00 - 3:30 Advancing Innovation: Long-Term Trends 
Session 3 Chair: Professor Philip Auerswald, George Mason University
Troost Room  
  "The Burden of Knowledge and the 'Death of the Renaissance Man': Is Innovation Getting Harder?"
  Professor Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
   
  "Combining Inventions in Multi-Invention Products: Patents, Organizational Alternatives and Public Policy"
  Professor Deepak Somaya, University of Maryland
   
  "Science and Industry: Tracing Basic Research through Manufacturing and Trade" 
  Professor James Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
   
2:00 - 3:30 Evaluating Innovation and Entrepreneurship 
Session 4 Chair: Professor Gordon Kingsley, Georgia Institute of Technology
Westport Room  
  "Technologies of Outsourcing: Consequences in the Adoption and Innovation Processes of a State Transportation Agency"
  Professor Gordon Kingsley, Georgia Institute of Technology
   
  "The Costs and Benefits of Accelerating the Transfer of Technology Infrastructure Underlying Complex Standards: The Case of IPv6"
  Dr. Michael Gallaher, Research Triangle Institute
  Brent Rowe, Research Triangle Institute
   
2:00 - 3:30 Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship:
Session 5 Policy and Practice #1
Rockhill Room Chair: Professor Iftekhar Hasan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
   
  "Innovation and Technology Transfer"
  Dr. Gary Lundquist, Marketing Engineering International
   
  "In Search of Innovation Synthesis: The Crucial Relationship Among Entrepreneurship, Technology, Innovation Practice and Policy"
  Dr. Josh Abend, Innovation Engines, CA
   
  "The Effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley on Small Business and Innovation"
  John Berlau, Competitive Enterprise Institute
   
4:00 - 5:30 Women in Science and Technology Commercialization #3
Session 1 Chair: Ellen Hemmerly, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Paseo Room  
  Roundtable on "ACTIVATE, a Multi-Unviersity Technology Commercialization and Training Program Focused on Female Entrepreneurs"
  Speakers:
  Dr. Stephen Auvil, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
  Ellen Hemmerly, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
   
4:00 - 5:30 Academic Entrepreneurship #3 
Session 2 Chair: Dr. Rory O'Shea, MIT
Brush Creek Room  
  "Why Do Some U.S. Universities Have Superior Spinoff Performance?"
(Please contact the author for permission to view this presentation: roshea@MIT.EDU)
  Dr. Rory O'Shea, MIT
  Professor Thomas Allen, MIT
  Professor Frank Roche, University College Dublin
   
  "Faculty Disclosures, University Invention, and Entrepreneurship"
  Professor Celestine Chukumba, Pennsylvania State University
   
4:00 - 5:30 Foundations of Technology Entrepreneurship 
Session 2 Chair: Professor Anne Miner, University of Wisconsin
Brush Creek Room  
  "The Role of Public Technology and Commercial Innovation in Early Stage Market Formation: Product Performance in High Technology"
Please contact the author to view the presentation: jeckhardt@bus.wisc.edu
  Professor Jonathan Eckhardt, University of Wisconsin
   
  "Efficiency and Technological Change at U.S. Research Universities"
  Professor Jeremy Foltz, University of Wisconsin
  Professor Bradford Barham, University of Wisconsin
  Professor Jean-Paul Chavas, University of Wisconsin
  Professor Kwansoo Kim, University of Wisconsin
   
  "Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Intent and Disclosure of University Inventions"
  Professor Gerard George, University of Wisconsin
  Professor Sanjay Jain, University of Wisconsin
  Professor Mark Maltarich, University of Wisconsin
   
4:00 - 5:30 University Technology Commercialization: Process and Outcomes 
Session 2 Chair: Patrick Jones, University of Arizona
Brush Creek Room  
  "Do Most Academic Institutions Lose Money on Technology Transfer?"
  Karrie D. Brandt, Boston University
 

Eric J. Stevenson, Boston University

  Janine B. Anderson, Boston University
  Catherine L. Ives, Boston University
  Michael J. Pratt, Boston University
  Dr. Ashley J. Stevens, Boston University
   
  "A Simple Unified Conceptual Framework For Academic Freedom, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer"
  Professor Katherine J. Strandburg, DePaul University
  Dr. Patrick L. Jones, University of Arizona
   
  "Temporal Optimatization of Technology Transfer"
  Ken Dozier, University of Southern California
  Dr. David Chang, University of Southern California
   
4:00 - 5:30 Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship:
Session 5 Policy and Practice #2
Rockhill Room Chair: Dr. John Hardin, North Carolina Board of Science and
  Technology and University of North Carolina
   
  "Are Entrepreneurs 'Leadership-Challenged'? If So, Does It Really Matter?"
  Professor David Waldman, Arizona State University
  Professor Mary Sully, Thunderbird, The Garvin School of
  International Management
  Nathan Washburn, Arizona State University
   
  "Looking for Ms. Right: Finding and Developing Entrepreneurs in Nascent Entrepreneurial Environments"
  Thomas P. Dickerson, Tullis-Dickersn & Co., Inc.
   
  "Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy: How Should Individuals Train to Become Entrepreneurs?"
  Chimao Hsieh, Washington University
   
 Friday, September 30 Continental Breakfast and Discussion 
8:00 - 9:00 "A State of Innovation"
Town Square Dr. Orna Berry, Gemini Israel Funds and Former Chief Scientist of Israel
   
9:00 - 9:45 Plenary Address 
Town Square "The Entrepreneurial Puzzle: Exploring the Gender Gap"
  Professor Paula Stephan, Georgia State University
   
10:00 - 11:30 Entrepreneurial Universities - Evidence from the U.S. 
Session 1 Chair: Dr. Art Hall, University of Kansas
Paseo Room  
  "Cross Campus Entrepreneurship-Organizing Within Washington University to Create and Innovation Environment: A Case Study in Progress"
  Ken Harrington, Washington University
  Michael G. Douglas, Washington University
   
  "Technology Transfer at Minority Serving Institutions"
  Dr. Edward Derrick, American Association for the Advancement of Science