Thursday 12 March

10.00-10.15    Welcome and introduction

Kenneth Bertrams, Université libre de Bruxelles: “Academic Entrepreneurship in History”

10.15-11.30    Institutional entrepreneurship. Part 1

Thomas Brandt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: “Building an Infrastructure for Industrial Research in Interwar Norway – Academic Entrepreneurship from Science Funds and Industry Laboratories to Research Councils”

Giovanni Paoloni and Giovanni Battimelli, Sapienza University of Rome: “University, Industry and Politics: Orso Mario Corbino as Organizer of Physical Research in Italy (1908-1937)”

11.30 –11.45  Coffee break

11.45-1.00      Institutional entrepreneurship. Part 2

Giovanni Favero, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice: “Corrado Gini as an Academic Entrepreneur: Scientific Conflict and Stakeholder Mobilization”

Berris Charnley, University of Oxford: “Agricultural Science and Entrepreneurialism in Britain and the Colonial West Indies, 1880-1930”

1.00-2.30        Lunch

2.30-3.45        Commercial entrepreneurship. Part 1

Joris Mercelis, Ghent University: “Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Commercialization and Institutionalization of Academic Photography in Europe and the United States, c.1860-1930”

Wolfgang König, Technical University of Berlin: “Engineering Professors as Entrepreneurs. The Case of Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905) and Alois Riedler (1850-1936)”

3.45-4.00        Coffee break

4.00-5.15        Commercial entrepreneurship. Part 2

Shaul Katzir, Tel Aviv University: “Technological Entrepreneurship from Patenting to Commercializing”

Anna Guagnini, University of Bologna: “Ivory Towers? The Commercial Activity of British Professors of Physics and Engineering, 1880-1914”

5.15-6.00        Keynote lecture 1

Mirjam Knockaert, Ghent University: “Enhancing an Entrepreneurial Attitude at European Universities”

Friday 13 March

9.00-10.15      Commercial entrepreneurship. Part 3

Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne: “Building a New Technoscience: Scientific Entrepreneurs in Computing in French Higher Education (1950-2000)”

Brian Dick, Life Sciences Foundation: “From Genetic Engineers to Genetic Entrepreneurs: Biogen, Scientific Entrepreneurship and the Commercialization of Molecular Biology”

10.15-10.30    Coffee break

10.30-12.15    Entrepreneurial institutions and partnerships. Part 1

Robert Kargon, Johns Hopkins University: “The Entrepreneurial University: Refashioning the American University after 1950”

Cyrus Mody, Rice University: “The University Center as Industrial Consortium: US Academic Microelectronics Research in the 1980s and 1990s”

Christophe Lécuyer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris: “Semiconductor Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Three University of California Campuses”

12.15-1.45      Lunch

1.45-3.00        Entrepreneurial institutions and partnerships. Part 2

Ellan Spero, MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design: “‘Science in Action:’ the Origin of an Academic-Industrial Partnership”

Gabriel Galvez-Behar, Université Lille 3: “Managing Scientific Patenting in French Research Organizations During the Interwar Period”

3.00 -3.15       Coffee break

3.15-4.00        Keynote lecture 2

Daniel Wadhwani, University of the Pacific: “Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research”

4.00-5.00        Final discussion