DAY 1 | JUNE 10
Location:
Luiss Business School
Villa Blanc
Via Nomentana 216, 00162, Rome
9:00-9:30: Registration and walk-in
9:30-9:45: Welcome & presentation ESI
Location: Ball Room
- Welcome by Prof. Raffaele Oriani, Dean Luiss Business School
- Introduction by Prof. Veroniek Collewaert (Academic Director ESI), Prof. Joris Ebbers and Prof. Christian Lechner (hosts ESI Conference 2024)
09:45-10:15: Keynote by Prof. Christian Lechner on scaling in the startup funnel
Location: Ball Room
10:15-10:30: European Scaleup Observatory by Prof. Dries Faems (WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management)
Location: Ball Room
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
Location: Mirror Room
11:00-12:30: Paper presentations (parallel sessions)
Track A: Ecosystems for Scaling
Location: Ball Room
- “You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley anymore: Global support webs for scaling businesses” by Vanessa Bretas, Esther Tippmann, Jonathan Levie (University of Galway)
- “The entrepreneurial ecosystem clock keeps on ticking – Regional persistence of high growth firms” by Jasper van Dijk, Jip Leendertse, Erik Stam, Frank van Rijnsoever (Utrecht University School of Economics)
- “Unicorns: from Silicon Valley to a global phenomenon?” by Jan Jacob Vogelaar, Erik Stam (Utrecht University School of Economics)
- “Building data foundations in support of high growth firms in East Africa: lessons from the field” by Scott Walker (Systemic Innovation)
Track B: Policy and Internationalization
Location: Green Room
- “Measuring Scaling: A Note for Policy and Research” by Daragh O’Leary, Jonathan Levie, Esther Tippmann (University of Galway)
- “Network evolution of INVs: Structural and Interactional attributes influencing the Internationalization Path” by Bisan Abdulkader (Luiss Business School)
- “The Scaling of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Review and Research Agenda” by Simon Rudat, Dries Faems (WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management)
- “Gender and Entrepreneurial Growth Ambitions: The Role of Regulatory Efficiency Reforms” by Pourya Darnihamedani (Nyenrode Business University)
12:30-13:00: Keynote on scaling internationally from Italy by Victor Ranieri (Co-Founder Casavo)
13:00-14:30: Lunch
Location: Mirror Room
14:30-15:00: “Scaleups – the European Policy Perspective” by Ludger Odenthal (SME Performance Review, DG GROW, European Commission)
15:00-16:45: Paper presentations (parallel sessions)
Track A: Understanding Growth Trajectories
Location: Ball Room
- “Putting together the Puzzle: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis on the Growth of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)” by Hadi Fariborzi, Simon Raby, Toktam Salari (Bissett School of Business)
- “Predicting Persistent High Growth: A Configurational Perspective on Managerial Actions Using Advanced Machine Learning and High-End Capability Computing” by Yassine Lamrani Abou Elassad, Justin J.P. Jansen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- “Who Performs Better? The Roles of Acquisition and Scaling on Performance of High Growth IPO Firms” by Mahdi Shahriari, Justin Jansen, Yu Liu, Tom Mom (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- “Unpacking high-growth dynamics through the lens of medium firms” by Massimiliano Guerini, Alessandro Lucini-Paioni, Daniela Silvestri (Politecnico di Milano)
Track B: People, Organization & Culture
Location: Green Room
- “Organizational Culture in Scale-Ups: the Role of Norms for Steering Hyper-Growth” by Christian Baumgart, Christoph Hienerth (WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management)
- “When new ventures grow up: Routine emergence when preparing for scaling” by Silvia Sanasi (Paderborn University), Sylvia Hubner-Benz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Alexander McKelvie (Syracuse University)
- “Scaling up by losing people: strategic attrition as a catalyst for hypergrowth” by Kristel Moedt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Christian Lechner (Luiss Business School)
- “Why should we hire you? Studying start-ups’ recruitment and performance outcomes” by Eric Schaap, Dominik Mahr, Ines Wilms, Feng Mai (Maastricht University, Stevens Institute of Technology)
- “Professionalizing the entrepreneurial firm: Grafting a managerial blueprint onto an organizational imprint” by Laurens Vandeweghe (ETH Zurich)
16:45-17:15: Coffee break
Location: Mirror Room
17:15-18:00: Panel “The scaleup climate in Italy and Europe”
Moderator: Massimo Cerofolini (RAI Journalist)
Panel members:
- Matteo Berlucchi (CEO, Healthily, serial entrepreneur)
- Marta Testi (CEO, Elite – Euronext)
- Enrico Fili (CDP – Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Ventures)
- Marco Gay (Zest, Accelerator & VC)
- Dries Faems (WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management)
20:00: Conference Dinner
Location:
Caffè delle Arti, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Via Antonio Gramsci 73, 00197, Rome
Moderator: Prof. Joris Ebbers (Luiss Business School)