Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … knowledge production function has to be considered in order to analyze FDI and innovation dynamics - and this can then be linked …. Time series data analysis for Germany indicates additionally that FDI induced higher innovation dynamics will raise output …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …