migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer‐employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is …

Growing cultural diversity is seen as important for innovation. Research has focused on two potential mechanisms: a … innovation, nor do migrant-run firms in diverse cities appear particularly innovative. But urban context does matter and firms in …