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Conference Agenda

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Monday, September 13, 2004

8:00	Registration and continental breakfast
8:30	Welcome J. Brian Atwood, Dean, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
8:45	Moderator: Matt Kramer, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Joseph Cortright, Economist, Impresa, Inc., Portland, Oregon The Young and the Restless in a Knowledge Economy (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
9:10	Lee Munnich, Senior Fellow and Director, State and Local Policy Program, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Knowledge Clusters as a Means of Promoting Regional Economic Development (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
9:35	Audience discussion
10:00	Break
10:15	Moderator: Louis Hohlfeld, Senior Program Officer, The McKnight Foundation [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF] Knowledge Cluster Case Studies Trixie Golberg, President, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, Owatonna, Minnesota (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF] John Ostrem, President, Northwest Minnesota Foundation, Bemidji, Minnesota [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint] Scott Sheely, Executive Director, Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board, Lancaster, Pennsylvania [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
11:00	Audience discussion
11:30	Moderator: Lisa Curtin, President, Irish American Equity Group and Ireland Chamber of Commerce in the USA, Minnesota Chapter President David Audretsch, Director, Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Entrepreneurship Policy and the Strategic Management of Places (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
12:00	Panelist 1 Chad Moutray, Chief Economist and Director, Office of Economic Research, SBA, Washington, DC
12:15	Panelist 2 Sam White, Professor of Urban Planning, School of Continuing Education, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
12:30	Audience discussion
1:00	Moderator: J. Brian Atwood, Dean, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Michael Fairbanks, Chairman of the Board, Head of Country Competitiveness at On The Frontier (OTF) Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lunch: Economic Development in Post Conflict Society: A Cluster-Focused Development Plan (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
2:15	Moderator: Dan Carr, CEO of the Collaborative, Minneapolis, Minnesota Stuart Rosenfeld, President, Regional Technology Strategies, Carrboro, North Carolina Crafting a New Rural Development Strategy (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
2:45	Audience discussion
3:15	Break
3:30	Moderator: G. Edward Schuh, Regents Professor and Freeman Chair, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Janet Bercovitz, Associate Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Academic Entrepreneurs: Social Learning and Participation in University Technology Transfer (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
4:00	Panelist 1 Art Harkins, Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
4:15	Panelist 2 Tony Strauss, Acting Vice President, Patents and Technology Office, University of Minnesota
4:30	Audience discussion
5:00	Hors D oeuvers reception

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

8:00	Continental breakfast
8:30	Moderator: Jonathan Darby, Deputy British Consul General, Chicago Paula Fitzsimons, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Consortium, Dublin, Ireland Professor Pia Arenius, Director GEM Global, Lausanne University, Switzerland Entrepreneurship and Government Policy: An International Perspective Based on the research of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
9:00	Audience discussion
9:15	Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Northern Ireland Eamon Mulvenna, Invest Northern Ireland, Belfast, Ireland [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
9:45	Audience discussion
10:00	Break
10:15	Moderator: Cornelia Flora, Director, North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Energizing Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities and Amongst Under-Represented Groups Deborah Markley, Co-Director, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, Chapel Hill, North Carolina [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF] Mary Riebe, Director, Center for Women Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship Education, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, Minnesota [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF] Mary Emery, North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Ames, Iowa
11:00	Audience discussion
11:15	Moderator: David Beal, Senior Business Editor and Columnist, St. Paul Pioneer Press Dileep Rao, President, InterFinance Corporation, Adjunct Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Introduction to Venture-Based Economic Development: Achieving Sustained Economic Growth Using Venture-Focused Strategies (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
11:45	Audience discussion
12:00	Lunch: The Entrepreneur?s Perspective [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF] Mark Knudson, Chairman and CEO of Venturi Group, LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota
1:15	Moderator: Professor Harry Sapienza, Carlson School of Management Thomas Lyons, Professor and Director, Center for Research on Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Building the Community's Pipeline of Entrepreneurs and Enterprises: A Fresh Approach to Evaluating Incubation Strategies (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
1:45	Audience discussion
2:00	Moderator: Mary Rothchild, Project Manager, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Erik Pages, President, Entreworks Consulting, Arlington, Virginia What's so New about New Entrepreneurship Policies? State Government Initiatives to Foster New Venture Creation (paper) [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
2:30	Audience discussion
2:45	Moderator: Tim Penny, Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Humphrey Policy Forum, and former United States Congressman Entrepreneurship Case Studies 1 & 2 Jane Leonard, President, Minnesota Rural Partners, St. Paul, Minnesota Steve Mercil, President and CEO, Mincorp Equity Fund, St. Paul, Minnesota [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF]
3:15	Break
3:30	Entrepreneurship case studies 3 & 4 Carolyn Lee, Director of Research, UCSD, CONNECT, San Diego, California [Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF] Leslie Scott, North Carolina Rural Center, Raleigh, North Carolina
4:00	Audience discussion
4:30	Concluding remarks
4:45	Adjourn

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