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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Session

Startup and Innovations

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

8:00am - 9:45am

Session Chair: Daniel Bias, Vanderbilt University

Location: Caribbean

Presentations

Nature Dependence, Economic Value, and Extinction Risk: Evidence from Biotech Innovations

Adrian Lam¹, David Licher², Moritz Wiedemann³

¹University of Pittsburgh; ²Imperial College London; ³Erasmus University Rotterdam

Discussant: William Xiong (Binghamton University)

Lam-502-Nature Dependence, Economic Value, and Extinction Risk.pdf

How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation?

Xuelin Li¹, Sijie Wang², Jiajie Xu³, Xiang Zheng⁴

¹Columbia University; ²Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; ³University of Iowa; ⁴University of Connecticut

Discussant: Fiona Paine (Texas A&M University)

Li-1038-How Does VC Engagement Direct Startup Experimentation.pdf

When Innovation Meets Politics: Patent Examiner Partisanship and Green Technology

Tao Shu¹, Fei Xie², Song Zhang², Wenrui Zhang³

¹Chinese University of Hong Kong; ²University of Delaware; ³Colorado State University

Discussant: Runjing Lu (University of Toronto)

Shu-371-When Innovation Meets Politics.pdf

2026 Midwest Finance Annual Meeting

March 12-14, 2026

Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL

Conference Agenda