CFP: RICAFE2 First Conference

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CALL FOR PAPERS

REGIONAL COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP
RICAFE2 First Conference

5 & 6 October 2006

Financial Markets Group,
London School of Economics

The Regional Comparative Advantage and Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship
(RICAFE2) Research programme was launched on 1st March 2006. The new
programme builds on the successful RICAFE project, completed in April
2005. The research network includes the London School of Economics
(FMG), the Department of Economics and Finance of Turin University, the
Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt), HEC School of Management
(Paris), University of Amsterdam, University of Tilburg, Baltic
International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, University of Lugano,
Indian School of Business, Technion (Israel). RICAFE2 is funded by the
European Commission, DG-Research, under Priority 7 - Citizens and
Governance in a Knowledge-based society - of the 6th Framework
Programme. More information about RICAFE2 the can be found at:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/ricafe


TOPICS:

The RICAFE2 First Conference will be held on 5 & 6 October at the London
School of Economics. The organizers invite submissions for empirical and
theoretical papers on the ability of financial systems to channel
venture capital to knowledge-based entrepreneurial firms, on the
influence of venture capital on firms' ability to translate
technological advances into successful products, and on the contribution
of knowledge-based entrepreneurship to regional dynamics. Some of the
topics to be discussed are  (but are not limited to):

- The choice between alternative sources of financing for innovative
firms and their impact on strategic decision in entrepreneurial firms;
- The determinants of knowledge-based entrepreneurship;
- Venture capital, its contribution to the knowledge-based economy;
- Economics of intellectual property rights and its implications for
knowledge-based entrepreneurship;
- The role and design of financial contracts and of the choice of
organizational form in fostering knowledge-based entrepreneurship;
- Effects of regulation on venture capital investment;
- Impact of corporate governance mechanisms on the performance of
entrepreneurial firm;
- The contribution of knowledge-based entrepreneurship to regional
comparative advantage.

The conference proceedings will not be published, as we aim to attract
papers on their way to publication in high quality journals.


EXPENSES:

Travel (economy class round-trip) and accommodation
expenses will be covered for presenters and discussants.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Catherine Casamatta (University of Toulouse), Vyacheslav Dombrovsky
(BICEPS, Latvia), Antoine Faure-Grimaud (London School of Economics),
Ulrich Hege (HEC), Antoinette Schoar  (MIT), Armin Schwienbacher
(University of Amsterdam), Per Stromberg (SIFR, Stockholm and GSB,
Chicago), Javier Suarez  (CEMFI) and Lucy White (Harvard Business
School).


PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Deadline for submission of papers is 11 June 2006.

Submissions are accepted online only via the RICAFE2
website:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/ricafe

The authors of selected papers will be informed by the end
of July.

Source: http://www.ssrn.com/update/erpn/erpnann/ann001.html