The SSRN Blog

As many of you know, we have worked closely with The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to create our Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN). Earlier this year, they held the first Economics Bloggers Forum and I was fortunate to be able to participate.  It was a wonderful event and a great opportunity to meet and learn from some very intelligent people, a few of which are included in the Renewal of Entrepreneurial Capitalism video below.  Other than my friends at the Kauffman Foundation inserting the wrong blog URL for me, I was very impressed with the quality of the videos and the professionalism of the staff.

Overview - Economic Bloggers and the Renewal of Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Gregg Gordon - Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network

Gregg Gordon - Building the Field of Entrepreneurship Research

Please let me know what you think about the videos and what changes are occurring in your discipline.

Here is the latest announcement from SSRN:

Darden School of Business: Batten Institute Joins ERPN Research Paper Series Sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation

We are pleased to announce that the Darden School of Business: Batten Institute has started a Research Paper Series sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation within the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN).

Darden School of Business: Batten Institute

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Darden-Batten-Institute-RES.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Darden-Batten-Institute-RES

The Darden School of Business: Batten Institute is dedicated to the creation of knowledge about the transformative power of entrepreneurship and innovation and to the cultivation of principled, entrepreneurial leaders. We believe that entrepreneurship and innovation are powerful mechanisms for addressing society’s most pressing issues and that economic and social advancement requires leaders who embrace an entrepreneurial outlook and a commitment to innovation of all kinds. (View full announcement)

Richard Stacy had an interesting blog post about journalism and the sanctity of publication. In this post he discusses the indignant attitude of journalists as it relates to the social media and how traditional journalists view traditional publications as the only forms of discourse to be valued.

I am excited that we are seeing a contrary attitude in scholarly publishing. I have participated in two very forward thinking blogger symposiums: Bloggership - How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship* at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School in April 2006 (yes, 2006!), and the more recent Economics Bloggers Forum at the Kauffman Foundation. The participants of both symposiums accepted social media as being part of the discourse and Bloggership produced several interesting papers. Even the staid, traditional group of scholarly publishers at the Society of Scholarly Publishers Meeting in Baltimore had a Twitter following with 170 Tweets during the conference, and about 40 since the conference.

There is a lot of change needed in scholarly publishing but at least some in scholarly publishing are not looking at social media with an indignant attitude.