889: Accelerating Tech Entrepreneurship (16163)

Session Chair(s)

• SI

  Stephen Impink

  HEC Paris, France

Presenter(s)

• NW

  Nataliya Wright

  Columbia Business School, United States
• AM

  Amisha Miller

  NYU Stern, United States
• DF

  Daniel Fehder

  U. of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, United States

Discussant(s)

• SY

  Sandy Yu

  U. of Minnesota, United States
• AN

  Abhishek Nagaraj

  UC Berkeley & NBER, United States
• DH

  David Hsu

  The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania, United States

Accelerators have emerged as important stimulants of high-tech entrepreneurial growth. And they do so through helping startups signal their quality (Howell, 2017; Yu, 2019), providing business education (Fehder and Hochberg, 2014; Gonzalez-Uribe and Leatherbee, 2018; Hallen et al., 2020), as well as by selecting higher quality startups (Wright, Koning, and Khanna, 2023; Yin and Luo, 2018). But these effects might not accrue equally to all startups, shaping whether accelerators help bridge or exacerbate disparities in entrepreneurial growth (Wright, 2023) and the extent to which they influence the direction of their technologies (Impink, 2023). We propose to bring together three papers presented by Dan Fehder, Amisha Miller, Michael Impink, and Nataliya Wright, discussed by David Hsu, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Sandy Yu, to understand the heterogeneous selection and treatment effects of accelerators. The panel reveals how accelerators select and benefit startups more that are already in more resourced positions, whether it be in terms of being located in US hubs, possessing dominant technological stacks, having a viable business idea, and having founders with represented ethnic and gender backgrounds. In doing so, these accelerators appear to complement the existing resources of startups rather than compensate for their resource constraints.

Presentations:

• 14:15 – 15:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  889: Corporate Accelerators and Global Entrepreneurial Growth (16163)
  

  Author: Stephen Michael Impink – HEC Paris

  Author: Nataliya Wright – Columbia Business School

  Author: Robert Channing Seamans – NYU Stern
• 14:15 – 15:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  889: Learning to Quit? A multi-year field experiment with innovation driven entrepreneurs (16163)
  

  Author: Esther Bailey – U. of Houston, Bauer College of Business

  Author: Daniel Fehder – U. of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

  Author: Eric Floyd – UCSD

  Author: Yael Hochberg – Rice U.

  Author: Daniel Lee – U. of Delaware
• 14:15 – 15:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  889: Unpacking investor evaluation: What prevents investors from investing in black founders? (16163)
  

  Author: Amisha Miller – NYU Stern