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immigrants. The research also brings into focus the relationship between high-skilled immigration and entrepreneurship and to … and Chungeun Yoon --III. Immigration and entrepreneurship.Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high …
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Most listed firms are freestanding in the U.S, while listed firms in other countries often belong to business groups: lasting structures in which listed firms control other listed firms. Hand-collected historical data illuminate how the present ownership structure of the United States arose: (1)...
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"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Angel investor tax credits are used globally to spur high-growth entrepreneurship. Exploiting the staggered … have large positive effects, raising concerns about using investor subsidies to promote entrepreneurship …
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documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...
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Immigrant founders of venture capital-backed companies have been critical to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We document the channels through which immigrant founders find their way to the United States and how those channels have changed over time. Immigrants have been an important source of...
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ecosystems. Assessing the impact of research institutions on entrepreneurship is challenging, given that these institutions are … the quality-adjusted quantity of entrepreneurship. In contrast, increases in non-research funding to universities and … entrepreneurship. Research funding to universities seems to play a unique role in promoting the acceleration of local entrepreneurial …
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The growth in inventive activity during early American industrialization is explored by examining the careers of 160 inventors credited with important technological discoveries. Analysis of biographical information and complete patent histories through 1865 indicates that these 'great inventors'...
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