| 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Registration (lunches provided beginning at 11:30) |
| 12:30 - 12:45 |
Welcome |
| 12:45 - 1:15 |
Conference Overview: Peter G. Klein, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Mission, Purpose and Themes
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| 1:15 - 1:30 |
Break |
| 1:30 - 3:15 |
Session 1: Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship
Moderator: Ken Schneeberger
- Low and Isserman, "Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Framing the Question in Rural Space"
- Henderson, "Understanding Rural Entrepreneurs at the County Level: Data Challenges"
- Vogel, "Exploring the Dimensions of Portfolio Entrepreneurship among Farm Households and the Links to the Rural Economy"
- Alsos, Carter and Ljunggren, "Portfolio Entrepreneurship in Practice: Comparative Analysis of Norwegian and Scottish Farm Households"
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| 3:15 - 3:30 |
Break |
| 3:30 - 5:15 |
Session 2: Collective Entrepreneurship
Moderator: Mike Cook
- Chambers and Cook, "A Primer on Collective Entrepreneurship"
- Iliopoulos, "Collective Entrepreneurship: Complexity, Evolution, and the Remaking of Producer-Oriented Firms"
- Robinson, "Cooperation in the Delta: A Case Study of the Arkansas Delta Produce Marketing Association, LLC"
- Cook and Burress, "Collective Entrepreneurship: Defining the Concept"
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| 5:15 - 6 |
Keynote 1: Jan Flora, Iowa State University
- "The Status of Entrepreneurship Research and Application in Rural America"
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| 6:30 - 7:30 |
Cocktail Hour (At the Embassy Suites) |
| 7:30 - ? |
Dinner, followed by after-dinner dialogue with Sandy Kemper, serial entrepreneur. |
| 8 - 8:45 a.m. |
Keynote 2: Pierre Desrochers, University of Toronto
- "Entrepreneurial Activities and the Regional Context: The Case for Local Diversity"
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| 8:45 - 9 |
Break
|
| 9 - 10:30 |
Session 3: Networks and Social Capital
Moderator: Mary Leuci
- Rønning and Ljunggren, "Community Entrepreneurship: Building Entrepreneurship-facilitating Social Capital"
- Fernandez and Vaillant, "Diversification of Social Capital as a Tool for Local Entrepreneurial Innovation: The Case of Priorat, Catalonia"
- Green and Wise, "Inventors and Entrepreneurs Clubs: Investment in an Innovative Organizational Collaboration"
- O'Brien and Porter, "Building Networks Between Communities, Extension and Researchers"
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| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Break
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| 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. |
Session 4: Organizational Adaptation
Moderator: Sharon Gulick
- Fajardo-Christen and Kiker, "Towards An Evolutionary Analytical Framework For Studying Transfer, Adoption And Diffusion Of Innovation Through Changes In Rules And Organizing Systems"
- Sykuta, James and Klein, "Markets, Contracts, or Integration? The Adoption, Diffusion, and Evolution of Organizational Form"
- Klein, "Occupational, Structural and Functional Approaches to Entrepreneurship"
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| 12:15 - 1:15 |
Lunch
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| 1:15 - 2:15 |
Summary and Wrap-Up:
- Keynote 3: Randy Westgren, University of Illinois, "Through the Looking Glass: A Proposal for a New Framework for Entrepreneurship Research"
- Peter Klein, "The Road Ahead"
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| 2:30 - 3:30 |
Optional time for "Interest Group" break-out session |
