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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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Entrepreneurship is thought to be a key driver of economic growth. While there are myriad forms of entrepreneurship … research provides evidence that the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth is driven not by overall quantity …-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …
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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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documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …
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In this chapter we draw from existing literature and a range of statistics to describe economic, entrepreneurial and innovative activities in the transportation and warehousing sector of the U.S. economy. We suggest multiple avenues for future work, and argue for more research on the role of...
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This is an introduction to the forthcoming volume "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth." The … chapters collected in this volume seek to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between innovation/entrepreneurship … and economic growth in specific industrial sectors? How has the relationship between innovation /entrepreneurship and …
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Stringent labor laws can provide firms a commitment device to not punish short-run failures and thereby spur their employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify this effect by exploiting the time-series variation...
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How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...
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entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …
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and Chungeun Yoon --III. Immigration and entrepreneurship.Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high … immigrants. The research also brings into focus the relationship between high-skilled immigration and entrepreneurship and to …
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