CALL FOR APPLICANTS: DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOP
10th WEST COAST RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
A one-day Doctoral Student Workshop will be presented in conjunction with the 10th West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship. The workshop is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Event: Doctoral Student Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship
Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Thursday, September 6, 2012 (Research Symposium held September 7-8)
Application: The APPLICATION DEADLINE for the Doctoral Student Workshop is Friday, July 6, 2012. If you wish to be considered, please complete the online application at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/masses/161816
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. Faculty leaders and organizers of the workshop are Peer Fiss (USC), Yan Gong (University of California, Irvine), Andrew Nelson (University of Oregon), and Emily Cox (University of Washington). In addition to Professors Fiss, Gong, Nelson, and Cox, faculty mentors include Kathy Eisenhardt (Stanford), Suresh Kotha (University of Washington), Alan Meyer (University of Oregon), Nandini Rajagopalan (USC), Kaye Schoonhoven and Christine Beckman (University of California, Irvine), and others.
The workshop offers an intellectually stimulating experience, maps the theoretical domain of technology entrepreneurship, and builds community. Workshop participants will have opportunities to present their own research interests, to interact with each other, and to get acquainted with faculty members.
The doctoral student workshop offers two separate tracks. Track 1 is designed for doctoral students who have not yet defended a dissertation proposal and who may still be in the process of selecting a dissertation topic. This track will devote attention to the selection of a dissertation topic, research design, and sources of data. Track 2 is intended for students who have defended dissertation proposals (or who are close to doing so). This track will devote attention to completing the dissertation, publishing the dissertation, and early career considerations. The two tracks will join together for selected workshop sessions/panels and for all meals.
All students chosen for the workshop will be invited to attend the two-day Research Symposium that follows on September 7-8. The symposium will showcase cutting-edge work by technology entrepreneurship researchers from the West Coast and around the world. Details on the research symposium are available at the WCRS website: http://theWCRS.org. Each student attendee will be provided with a $250 travel stipend, as well as all meals and three nights lodging (double occupancy). Applicants focusing on the nexus of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship will be given preference.
The 2012 conference will be hosted by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California, at the heart of sunny and vibrant Los Angeles. This is a great opportunity for doctoral students to learn from leading scholars and contemporary work in the field. We hope to see you in Los Angeles!
CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Washington
Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University
Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Oregon
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California
Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of California at Irvine
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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Yan Gong
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
The Paul Merage School of Business
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3125
Phone: 949.824.8544
Fax: 949.725.2866
Email: gongy@merage.uci.edu