Cities and Entrepreneurship.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER Conference on Cities and Entrepreneurship, organized by Edward L. Glaeser, NBER and Harvard University, Stuart Rosenthal of Syracuse University, and William Strange of the University of Toronto, took place in Cambridge on May 1 and 2. These papers were discussed:

* Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER; Iain Cockburn, Boston University and NBER; and Carlos Rosell, Department of Finance, Canada, "Not Invented Here: Creative Myopia and Company Towns"

* William R. Kerr, Harvard University, "How Important Is Local Innovation for Entrepreneurship? An Assessment through U.S. Scientific Immigration"

Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER; Anna Kovner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and Henry Chen, Harvard University, "Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion"

* Jed Kolko, PPIC, and David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER, "Does Local Business Ownership Stabilize Employment?"

* Michael Dahl, University of Aalborg, and Olav Sorenson, University of Toronto, "The Migration of Technical Workers"

Mark Doms, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College; and...