Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and … of stronger persistence in productivity than in innovation. …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government …-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale … provisions. This points to a basic trade-off between the goals of raising competition in technology-intensive markets and the …

trade and low market potential (income per capita). We tentatively conclude that cities are important drivers of FDI and … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too … suffer from primacy. However, FDI is attracted if surrounding countries have fewer cities, restrictions on international …