Dear Esteban I’m sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Things are rather hectic here at the moment. We are still working on the invoice part in our system. It will be solved so that you can have an invoice for the reimbursement. I will let you know as soon as you can download it. Best regards Jeanette Fra: Mark Lorenzen <ml.si@cbs.dk> Sendt: 12. maj 2023 13:49 Til: Jeanette Hvarregaard <jhvarre@business.aau.dk> Emne: VS: Druid ________________________________ Fra: Esteban Lafuente <esteban.lafuente@upc.edu<mailto:esteban.lafuente@upc.edu>> Sendt: 12. maj 2023 12:55 Til: Mark Lorenzen <ml.si@cbs.dk<mailto:ml.si@cbs.dk>> Cc: Zoltan Acs <zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>> Emne: Re: Druid Dear Mark, Following up your instructions, I am sharing the short description of the PDW for DRUID-2023. Just in case, the document also includes a short bio of the organizers and speakers. I would be thankful if you acknowledge receipt of the file and confirm that everything is OK. In case you have any question, please let me know. I look forward to seeing you in Lisbon! Kind regards, PS: I have contacted Jeanette twice in the last 3 weeks asking about the invoice of the conference fee. I understand she's very busy right now with the organization of the conference, but it would be nice if she replies my emails (unfortunately, the receipt is not accepted by my university because it's not a legal document, and the university wants an official invoice for documentation purposes. This is an important issue because I paid the fee and the university will refund it once the invoice is delivered only). Esteban ************************* Esteban Lafuente, PhD Department of Management, UPC Barcelona Tech https://doe.upc.edu/ca/pers/lafuente-esteban On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 3:12 PM Mark Lorenzen <ml.si@cbs.dk<mailto:ml.si@cbs.dk>> wrote: Dear Esteban and Zoltan Many thanks for your submission of a proposal for a PDW for DRUID23. I am happy to be able to inform you that your PDW now has been formally included in the conference program. The PDWs are scheduled for Saturday, June 10, 9:00-12:00. Please show up before 9:00 at the conference information counter (see venue details on the conference home page) to register and be assigned to a room for the PDW. The room contains all the usual A/V equipment, and DRUID will provide coffee and refreshments. Before May 15, please send us an updated short description of the PDW of no more than half a page for the print and online conference program. Please consult format examples from earlier years’ DRUID conference programs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d75mye36uci61ca/DRUID%20PROGRAMME%202022.pdf?dl=0 http://conference.druid.dk/infosite/DRUID%20PROGRAMME%202021.pdf We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon! Best wishes Mark Mark Lorenzen Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School Director, DRUID www.cbs.dk/en/staff/mlino<http://www.cbs.dk/en/staff/mlino> www.druid.dk<http://www.druid.dk/> ________________________________ Fra: Esteban Lafuente <esteban.lafuente@upc.edu<mailto:esteban.lafuente@upc.edu>> Sendt: 17. marts 2023 13:44 Til: Mark Lorenzen <ml.si@cbs.dk<mailto:ml.si@cbs.dk>> Cc: Zoltan Acs <zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>> Emne: Re: Druid Du får ikke ofte mails fra esteban.lafuente@upc.edu<mailto:esteban.lafuente@upc.edu>. Få mere at vide om, hvorfor dette er vigtigt<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Dear Prof. Lorenzen, Following up your conversation with Zoltan Acs, I am sharing with you the document with the info of the Professional Development Workshop (PDW) that we will present at DRUID-23. In line with your guidance, the document includes: A) title of the session, B) speakers, C) a blurb, D) an overview of the session's content, and D) a short bio of speakers. Obviously, please let me know if you consider that changes are needed in the document. Thank you again for giving us the opportunity to promote a discussion on entrepreneurial ecosystems at DRUID-23. I look forward to meeting you in Lisbon. Kind regards, Esteban ************************* Esteban Lafuente, PhD Department of Management, UPC Barcelona Tech https://doe.upc.edu/ca/pers/lafuente-esteban On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:21 AM Zoltan Acs <zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>> wrote: Dear Mark, Esteban is putting this together. Many thanks. Zoltan Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2023, at 4:29 PM, Zoltan Acs <zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>> wrote:  Can you do this? Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Mark Lorenzen <ml.si@cbs.dk<mailto:ml.si@cbs.dk>> Date: February 28, 2023 at 2:48:48 PM EST To: Zoltan Acs <zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>> Subject: Sv: Druid  Dear Zoltan: Excellent! We need a description of the PDW -- title, speakers, and an overview of the content. You can see the formal requirements in the conference call: https://conference.druid.dk/Druid/?confId=66 Since in your case, I know the quality of your PDW to be top notch, you needn't worry too much about the formalities, but it would be good with a brief bio of everyone plus some marketing blurb that will attract the audience. You can refer to how PDWs were presented in the progam of earlier years: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d75mye36uci61ca/DRUID%20PROGRAMME%202022.pdf?dl=0 (pages 13-14) https://conference.druid.dk/infosite/DRUID18%20PROGRAM.pdf (pages 11-12) All best Mark ________________________________ Fra: Zoltan Acs <zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>> Sendt: 28. februar 2023 20:34 Til: Mark Lorenzen <ml.si@cbs.dk<mailto:ml.si@cbs.dk>> Emne: Re: Druid Du får ikke ofte mails fra zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>. Få mere at vide om, hvorfor dette er vigtigt<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Dear Mark, that sounds terrific. A PDW on the first conference day would be perfect. How should we organize this. Any suggestions would be appreciated to take advantage of this opportunity. Zoltan. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2023, at 2:27 PM, Mark Lorenzen <ml.si@cbs.dk<mailto:ml.si@cbs.dk>> wrote:  Dear Zoltan Nice to hear from you. I of course know your work, and I also organized the DRUID15 conference in Rome, including your -- in my opinion highly succesful and entertaining -- DRUID Debate on enterpreneurship policy. I was happy to see its further development into the SBE article, which I have in fact used in my own teaching! Your upcoming book sounds exciting, and as the entrepreneurship ecosystem perspective is gaining quite some traction among the DRUID audience, I would much much have liked to include a plenary session based on the book in the program for the DRUID23 conference in Lisbon. However, I am afraid that the plenary program was finalized several months ago -- for a conference of this size and with a set of very specialized plenaries, we need to book our speakers well ahead. Since we will present almost 200 peer reviewed papers during the conference, it is logistically impossible to expand the number of plenaries, since this would squeeze out the time for parallel paper presentations. There is, of course, the option of presenting your session as a Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on the morning of the first conference day. Designed as something in between a plenary and a paper session, these workshops last 2.5 hours and can accomodate up to 75 people, and it seems that the content you envision would fit the PDW format quite well. They are advertised prominently in the conference program. Please let me know what you think. At any rate, since DRUID gets an increasing number of paper submissions on the entrepreneurship ecosystems perspective, it would be excellent to have you at the conference. With kind regards Mark Mark Lorenzen Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School Director, DRUID www.cbs.dk/en/staff/mlino<http://www.cbs.dk/en/staff/mlino> www.druid.dk<http://www.druid.dk/> ________________________________ Fra: Zoltan Acs <zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>> Sendt: 27. februar 2023 4:33 Til: Mark Lorenzen <ml.si@cbs.dk<mailto:ml.si@cbs.dk>> Cc: Esteban Lafuente <esteban.lafuente@upc.edu<mailto:esteban.lafuente@upc.edu>>; anagelo.cavallo@polimi.it<mailto:anagelo.cavallo@polimi.it> <anagelo.cavallo@polimi.it<mailto:anagelo.cavallo@polimi.it>>; Szerb László Dr. <szerb.laszlo@ktk.pte.hu<mailto:szerb.laszlo@ktk.pte.hu>> Emne: Druid Du får ikke ofte mails fra zacs@gmu.edu<mailto:zacs@gmu.edu>. Få mere at vide om, hvorfor dette er vigtigt<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Dear Mark (if I may), My name is Zoltan Acs from George Mason University in Washington DC. I visited Copenhagen Business School last fall. I have a new book coming out in entrepreneurial ecosystems, The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Global Perspective, to be published by Pelgrave this Spring. I was part of a Druid session in Rome several years ago that was very well received and published in Small Business Economics. I would like to organize a session around the book that was coauthored with Szerb Laszlo from the university of Pecs and Esteban Lafuente from Barcellona tech. I envision a session with two presentations, one by me and another one by Esteban. Jose Mata has agreed to participate as has Angelo Cavallo from the Politecnico di Milano. He has written a review article on entrepreneurial ecosystems in 2019, "Entrepreneurial ecosystem research: present debates and future directions," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. I enclose an outline of the book. The topic is of relevance both for business and reginal policy debates. I enclose an endorsement for the book by David Audretsch: "Entrepreneurial ecosystems, while having emerged as one of the most prominent policies for entrepreneurship and economic development, have confounded thought leaders in business and policy as well as the scholarly research community. No more. This pathbreaking new book offers the unequivocal analysis and framework explicitly clarifying what an entrepreneurial ecosystem is, can do and how best to create and sustain one. The book pulls together the top thinkers in the field to pave new ground on how and why no region can afford to ignore the power of entrepreneurial ecosystems, just as no researcher concerned with entrepreneurship, economic development and regional prosperity should ignore them." I know this is a little late but it is all ready now. Thank you for your consideration. Zoltan Acs University Professor