The conference will address key issues in strategic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance. Preference will be given to papers using the Kauffman Firm Survey data. Papers using other microdata to address the conference topics are also welcome (e.g. Survey of Small Business Finances, Panel...

The aim of this conference is to bring to the forefront issues related to the financing of entrepreneurial firms, and to explore various institutional, legal, and financial sector developments that affect the creation of such firms, their rate of success, the dynamism of incumbent firms, and...

Although most scholars recognize the importance of understanding how new companies are financed, they have made relatively little progress in investigating this process empirically, largely because of the lack of available data. However, in recent years, some scholars have begun to examine...