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 …

, particularly of university scientists, is positively related to innovation; (vi) there are many university spin-offs but these are …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … and foster innovation. The probability of innovation as a result of short-term mobility is 0.4 higher in Africa overall …

of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …