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 …

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

This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers … affected by both ownership and competition since both ownership structure and competition provide bargaining chips to employees …. Ownership provides protections which may improve or dull employees’ incentives for human capital investment. When there is …

We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship by exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the British …

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative … UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from the Business Structure Database (BSD), and the Community Innovation … Survey (CIS) to study the relation between self-employment, business creation and innovation. In order to do so, we aggregate …

entrepreneurship and a partner’s self-employment experience increases only women’s likelihood of entering into entrepreneurship. These …

Entrepreneurs are believed to be the ultimate engine of modern economic systems. Yet, the study of entrepreneurship … entrepreneur. This suggests that, if the JAT Attitude matters for entrepreneurship, it is an innate and time-invariant individual …

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …

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 …