Presentations made at the first Smith Entrepreneurship Research Conference, held at the Smith School on May 22-23, 2005, are available online for your reference. To view the streaming video and PowerPoint presentations, please click on the "Video Presentation" links below for the session you are interested in watching. Download the free version of Real Player if you don't already have a video player on your computer. Click on the paper's title to download a PDF of the paper. Send problems or questions to aleyl@rhsmith.umd.edu.

►April 22, Morning Session Video Presentation

Entrepreneurial Cognitions and Behavior

• Entrepreneurial Identity: Theory and Measurement
  Ha Hoang and Javier Gimeno, Insead

• The Practical Intelligence of High Potential Entrepreneurs
  J. Robert Baum, University of Maryland

Discussant: Gerry George, University of Wisconsin

►April 22, Afternoon Session I Video Presentation

Learning and Entrepreneurship

• Gaining from Your Losses: The Backward Transfer of Knowledge through Mobility Ties
  Rafael Corredoira and Lori Rosenkopf, Wharton

• Leaving a Legacy: Role Imprints and Successor Turnover in Young Firms
  M. Diane Burton, MIT and Christine M. Beckman, UC-Irvine

Discussant: Melissa Graebner, UT-Austin

►April 22, Afternoon Session II Video Presentation

New Products, New Markets

• Reputation Accumulation by New Firms in New Markets
  Violina Rindova and Antoaneta Petkova, University of Maryland

• Effects of Entry Mode and Incumbency Status on Firm Product Innovation in the Worldwide Optical Disk Drive Industry, 1983-1999
  Olga Khessina, Georgetown University

Discussant: Kathleen Eisenhardt, Stanford University

►April 23, Morning Session I Video Presentation

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

• Navigating through Extreme Asymmetry: Go-to-Market Partnerships Between Young Software Firms and Large Platform Companies
  Anil Gupta and Qing Cao, University of Maryland

• Private Benefit from Public Good? Start-Up Strategies for Participation in an Open Standards Community
  David M. Waguespack, University of Maryland and Lee Fleming, Harvard

Discussant: Frank Rothaermel, Georgia Tech

►April 23, Morning Session II Video Presentation

New Venture Business Models and Performance

• The Flip Side of the Coin: Nascent Technology Ventures and Corporate Ventur Funding
  Jeff D. Rosenberger, Riitta Katila, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Stanford

• Was There Too Little?  Entry During the Dot Com Era
  Brent Goldfarb and David Kirsch, Maryland

Discussant:  Melissa Schilling, NYU

►April 23, Afternoon Session I Video Presentation

Entrepreneurship in a Global Context

• Knowledge, Institutions, and the Internationalization of U.S. Venture Capital Firms
  Mauro Guillen, Wharton and Isin Guler, Boston University

• Opening the Black Box of Capability Creation: The Internationalization of Entrepreneurial Firms
  Chris Bingham, Stanford /Maryland and Kathleen Eisenhardt, Stanford

Discussant: Harry Sapienza, University of Minnesota

►April 23, Afternoon Session II Video Presentation

Industry Evolution

• The Spatial Evolution of Organizational Foundings: Evidence from U.S. Instrument Manufacturers
  Pino Audia, John Freeman, Paul Reynolds, UC-Berkeley

• The Winds of Change: Technical, political, and Cultural Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Activity in the Emerging U.S. Wind Power Industry
  Wesley Sine and Brandon Lee, Cornell University

Discussant: Anne Miner, Wisconsin