High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

are immigrants. We utilize the Annual Business Survey to quantify the greater rates of patenting and innovation in … immigrant-founded firms. This higher propensity towards innovation is only partly explained by differences in education levels …