DEPARTMENT OF STRATEGY AND POLICY, NUS BUSINESS SCHOOL

ASIA RESEARCH IN INNOVATION STRATEGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ARISE) Initiative Workshop 2013

Date:	15 March 2013
Venue:	Mochtar Riady Building 03-03

Workshop Overview

As part of the ARISE Research Initiative, NUS Business School is organizing a research workshop on recent scholarship in entrepreneurship and innovation. Faculty and researchers will be invited to present both theoretical and empirical findings in these areas, many of which rely on novel datasets or theoretical perspectives. Participating scholars will provide feedback in an informal setting to encourage exchange and interactions.

Registration

Participation is by invitation only. Please contact or if you are interested in participating.

About ARISE

ARISE (Asia Research in Innovation Strategy & Entrepreneurship) is an NUS Business School research initiative that focuses on understanding the relationships between innovation, entrepreneurship and firm strategy. ARISE brings together scholars across NUS from a variety of disciplines including strategy, finance, policy, economics and organizational behaviour. The initiative’s goals are to generate high quality academic research that has the potential to impact practitioners and policy makers.

Program: March 15th (Friday), 2013

8:45am - 9:00am	Welcome Remarks by Prof Poh Kam Wong, NUS Business School
SESSION 1: INNOVATORS AND MOBILITY
9.00am – 9.45am	The Impact of Mobility and Entrenchment on Innovative Productivity: Evidence from genomic scientists Kenneth Huang, SMU (with Gokhan Ertug, SMU)
9.45am – 10.30am	Mobility of Scientists and Engineers: LinkedIn vis-à-vis patent records Ivan Png, NUS (with Chunmian Ge and Ke-wei Huang, NUS)
10.30am – 11.00am	Break
SESSION 2: CAPABILITIES
11.00am –11.45am	Innovating in All the Wrong Places: the effects of indirect and complementary experience in maintaining dynamic capabilities Alva Taylor, Dartmouth College
11:45am - 12:30pm	Product Commercialization and Inefficiencies in the Market for Technology Stefan Wagner, ESMT (with Simon Wakeman, ESMT)
12.30pm – 1.30pm	Lunch
SESSION 3: INNOVATION STRATEGY
1.30pm – 2.15pm	Innovating Standards through Informal Consortia: The case of wireless telecommunications Aija Leiponen, Cornell University (with Henry Delcamp, Cerna)
2.15pm – 3.00pm	Does Government R&D Stimulate or Crowd Out Firm R&D Spending? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing industries Albert Hu, NUS (with Deng Yongxu, National Bureau of Statistics of China)
3.00pm – 3.30pm	Break
SESSION 4: ENTREPRENEURSHIP
3.30pm – 4.15pm	The Schumpeterian Cost of Regulation on Entry and Innovation: The Case of Bail Bonds Erin Scott, NBER
4.15pm – 5.00pm	When do Entrepreneurial Firms Raise Debt? Sharat Raghavan, NUS
5.00pm – 5.15pm	Closing Remarks by Ivan Png, NUS
6.00pm	Networking Reception