This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …

another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home … abroad, or return home to utilize the internationally acquired knowledge in the domestic labour market. In this paper we use …

another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home … abroad, or return home to utilize the internationally acquired knowledge in the domestic labour market. In this paper we use …

implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …