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We invite paper submissions to the sixth Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Conference (EFIC) which will be held on September 18, 19, and 20, 2015 at the Brandeis International Business School. Papers submitted to the conference have the option to be considered for dual submission with Management Science. The call for papers is attached. The submission deadline is July 12th, 2015. For details on the conference and to submit papers, please visit the conference website: http://www.brandeis.edu/global/efic/

Sixth Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Conference

September 18th – September 20th, 2015

Brandeis International Business School

 Supported by:

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship,  Brandeis International Business School

Keynote Speaker: Professor Steven Neil Kaplan

Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance,

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

OVERVIEW

We invite paper submissions to the sixth Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Conference (EFIC) which will be held on September 18, 19, and 20, 2015 at the Brandeis International Business School. The conference is jointly sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship at Brandeis International Business School. Papers submitted to the conference also have the option to be considered for dual submission with Management Science. Selected papers that opt for dual submission will go through the Management Science reviewing process, and if accepted, be published in an issue of Management Science. For details on the conference and to submit papers, please visit the conference website: http://www.brandeis.edu/global/efic/

The aim of this conference is to bring to the forefront issues related to the financing of entrepreneurial firms and small businesses and the financing of innovation. The conference will explore various institutional, legal, and financial sector developments that affect the creation of firms, their rate of success, the dynamism of incumbent firms, and their contribution to innovation and economic development. The conference will focus on understanding the role of entrepreneurs, various intermediaries, institutional investors, and new developments related to the financing of entrepreneurial firms and innovation.

As part of an effort to understand new avenues of financing for entrepreneurs, of special interest would be research focusing on alternative channels of financing for innovation and new firm creation, such as angel financing, crowdfunding (including AngelList syndicates or "circles" on CircleUp), seed funds and venture funds from programs such as YCombinator and Techstars, and the impact of accelerators and other types of training programs on entrepreneurship and innovation. Policy evaluation of recent regulatory changes that have led to the development of such new avenues of entrepreneurial finance and comparison of institutional, legal (especially contractual), and market structures that could foster and spur further development of policy related to entrepreneurial finance are particularly welcome, including the JOBS Act. Authors of such papers will also have the option to have their papers considered for dual submission with Management Science. In addition, papers presented on such topics that are selected by Management Science or included in an edited volume published by the Kauffman Foundation will be provided a research honorarium of $5,000.

The conference will cover reasonable travel expenses including airfare (up to a maximum of $550) and accommodation for the presenting authors. All papers on the program will be considered for the Asper Best Paper Award for $1000. The submission deadline is July 12, 2015. However, authors are highly encouraged to submit as soon as their paper is ready for consideration. Please submit papers via the conference website. The organizers will inform authors submitting a paper by end of August about inclusion in the conference program.

While both theoretical and empirical papers using any relevant data source are welcome, submission of papers using microdata (for example, data from crowdfunding platforms, the Kauffman Firm Survey, Census datasets such as the ILBD, LBD, LEHD, LRA and SBO, as well as other microdata such as the Survey of Small Business Finances, Panel Survey of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, and Small Business Economic Trends, and the National Small Business Poll) to analyze any of the above issues are encouraged.

Program Committee:

Daniel Bergstresser – Brandeis University

Michael Ewens – California Institute of Technology

Thomas Hellmann - University of British Columbia

William Kerr - Harvard University

Karthik Krishnan - Northeastern University

Josh Lerner - Harvard University

Evgeny Lyandres – Boston University

Aldo Musacchio – Brandeis University

Ramana Nanda – Harvard University

Vikram Nanda – Rutgers University

Matthew Rhodes-Kropf - Harvard University

Alicia Robb - Kauffman Foundation

David Robinson - Duke University

Morten Sorensen - Columbia University

Heather Tookes - Yale University

Sponsoring Editor (Management Science):

Gustavo Manso – University of California, Berkeley

Conference Organizers:

Thomas Chemmanur – Boston College

Paolo Fulghieri – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Debarshi Nandy – Brandeis University

Alex Krause

Research & Policy

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

4801 Rockhill Road

Kansas City, MO 64110

Tel. 816-932-1123

akrause@kauffman.org

@AlexKrause