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The CCC’s Sixteenth Annual Colloquium for Doctoral Student Research was held at Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark.  The conference started on Friday evening, May 15, 2009 and concluded on Sunday, May 17, at noon.

The CCC offers doctoral students an opportunity to present their research and receive guidance and commentary from faculty associated with institutions such as Aalborg University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Copenhagen Business School, Columbia, Duke, Emory, EPFL, Harvard, MIT, Michigan, Northwestern, Stanford, University of Sussex (SPRU), University of Toronto, and Wharton, among others.  Faculty and student interests typically center on questions of organization and economic theory, technology management and firm strategy, entrepreneurship, and the co-evolution of industrial structure, organizational structure, and innovation.  Past presentations have discussed firm capabilities, management of innovation, competition and cooperation among firms, technological change and variation within industries, diffusion of knowledge, firm survival and failure, technology transfer from universities, and the broader institutional structures and policies that influence firm behavior.
Previous Colloquia have taken place at Carnegie Mellon, Wharton, MIT, Michigan, Harvard, NYU, Northwestern, Duke, Boston University, the University of Toronto, Emory University, the University of California (Berkeley), EPFL (Lausanne) and Georgia Tech.  In 2008, the CCC returned to where it began, at Carnegie Mellon.

As a new initiative, we hosted a pre-CCC conference exclusively for faculty joining the CCC meeting.  The faculty event started on Thursday, May 14, 2009, and concluded on Friday evening, May 15, 2009

We are indebted to the Sloan Foundation for support that facilitated the development of this annual Colloquium series in the past and for continuing support for the Colloquium by the Kauffman Foundation.  Local costs for this year’s Colloquium are underwritten by the Oticon Foundation, the Danish Social Science Research Council and the host institutions – Aalborg University and Copenhagen Business School.

We thank all participants for a wonderful time in Copenhagen!

Michael S. Dahl, Keld Laursen and Steven Klepper
Organizers of this years event