Opening
November 23rd at 9.30 a.m.
November 24th at 9.00 a.m.
Venue
Politecnico di Milano – Department of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering
Via Lambruschini 4/b, Milano
Organization
The conference is organized in 7 thematic sessions, each led by a senior chair. In each session, each presenter will discuss the paper following her/his presentation (the last presenter will discuss the first paper presented). Moreover, the chair will also act as a senior discussant, providing brief comments to all papers presented in the session.
For each paper:
- 15 minutes: presentation
- 5 minutes: Junior discussant
- 5 minutes: Senior discussant
- 5 minutes: Q&A
Thursday, November 23rd | 8.30 – 18.00 | Rooms: Sala Consiglio and Room 0.1 (for sessions 2 and 4)
08.30 – 09.30 Registration
09.30 – 10.00 Welcome and opening address
Alessandro Perego Director of the Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Evila Piva Politecnico di Milano
Christian Lechner Libera Università di Bolzano
10.00 – 11.30 Keynote speech
Massimo G. Colombo (Politecnico di Milano) introduces
David Hsu Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 Parallel sessions
Session 1: Entrepreneurial finance I – venture capital financing
Chair and senior discussant: Elisa Ughetto Politecnico di Torino
Diego Useche University of Bordeaux
“Conveying quality or competitive advantage? Evidence for heterogeneous VC investors in newly-listed high-tech firms”
Paola Rovelli Libera Università di Bolzano
“Organization and finance of entrepreneurial ventures: Looking beyond the surface”
Vahid Sadr Politecnico di Milano
“Acquisitive growth vs organic growth: How do venture capitalists impact the growth mode of European entrepreneurial ventures?”
Session 2: Entrepreneurial ecosystem
Chair and senior discussant: Cristina Rossi-Lamastra Politecnico di Milano
Ayna Yusubova Ghent University
“The role of research institute incubators in overcoming technology-based ventures’ resource gaps at different development stages: The case of iMinds”
Elisabetta Raguseo Politecnico di Torino
“Digital start-ups and the entrepreneurial ecosystem: investigating the key dimensions”
José Nicanor Franco Riquelme Technical University of Madrid – Autonomous University of Madrid – Complutense University of Madrid
“KIBS’ innovative entrepreneurship networks on social media”
13.30 – 14.30 Light lunch
14.30 – 16.00 Parallel sessions
Session 3: Innovation in entrepreneurial ventures
Chair and senior discussant: Chiara Franzoni Politecnico di Milano
Leonardo Boni Università di Bologna
“Re-thinking the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) through different contexts: a new conceptual framework to design future research”
Paolo Di Muro Politecnico di Milano
“Entrepreneurial organizing for innovation: when ambidexterity becomes a source of competitive advantage”
Nina Rilla VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
“Stretching or stumbling to market – insights from innovative entrepreneurial firms in life science”
Session 4: Entrepreneurship and universities
Chair and senior discussant: Christian Lechner Libera Università di Bolzano
Anja Köngeter Austrian Institute of Technology
“The integration of industry in scientific communities – Empirical evidence for a source of entrepreneurship”
Davide Hahn Università degli Studi di Bologna
“Scientific origin and open innovation of innovative start-ups: A mediated model”
Giuliano Sansone Politecnico di Torino
“The role of entrepreneurship education”
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 18.00 Round table
Chair: Giancarlo Giudici Politecnico di Milano
Marco Cantamessa Politecnico di Torino and President and CEO of I3P
David Casalini Founder and CEO of StartupItalia
Stefano Mizio Head of Startup Mentoring at Polihub
Fabio Santini One Commercial Partner and Small, Medium and Corporate Leader at Microsoft
20.00 – 23.00 Social dinner
Palazzo Lombardia, Piazza Città di Lombardia
Friday, November 24th | 9.00 – 14.30 | Rooms: Sala Consiglio and Room 0.1 (for session 6)
09.00 – 10.30 Parallel sessions
Session 5: Entrepreneurial finance II – crowdfunding
Chair and senior discussant: Massimiliano Guerini Politecnico di Milano
Winifred Huang University of Bath
“The role of P2P debt in entrepreneurial finance”
Vincenzo Butticé Politecnico di Milano
“Green Oriented Crowdfunding Campaigns: Their Characteristics and Diffusion in Different Institutional Settings”
Francesca Di Pietro LUISS Guido Carli
“It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it: The effect of future and past tense markers on crowdfunding campaigns’ success”
Session 6: Microfoundations of entrepreneurship
Chair and senior discussant: Evila Piva Politecnico di Milano
Helene Doms Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
“A new perspective on alertness: Its (different) antecedents and effects in social entrepreneurship”
Simona Leonelli Università degli Studi Gabriele d’Annunzio
“Entrepreneurs’ narcissism and innovative performance: The moderating role of market scenarios”
Silvia Stroe Politecnico di Milano
“Doing good or doing well? Determinants of socially-oriented new venture ideas”
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 Keynote speech
Evila Piva (Politecnico di Milano) introduces
Mike Wright Imperial College London
12.00 – 13.30 Session 7: Entrepreneurial strategy
Chair and senior discussant: Riccardo Fini Università di Bologna
Anna Karina Lopez Hernandez INGENIO – University Polytechnic of Valencia
“Technology-based startups: A review definition, classification and organization”
Jolien Roelandt & Laurence Rijssegem Ghent University
“The link between entrepreneurial role identity aspirations and opportunity exploration and exploitation”
Frano Barbic Politecnico di Milano
“Determinants of governance structure in multipartner alliances: A multiple case study”
13.30 – 14.30 Light lunch and conclusions