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 higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 …

ideas, and higher educational attainments of entrepreneurs and workers, enhance endogenous economic growth by augmenting the …

data from the German Socio-economic Panel revealing that entrepreneurs, particularly those with employees, are aware of and …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; human capital investment ; skill transferability ; opportunity cost ; learning transferability …

where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … hinges on risk tolerance and patience. Parents expecting their children to become entrepreneurs have an incentive to instill … entrepreneurs there are in a society hinges, in turn, on parental investments in children's patience and risk tolerance. There can …

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants … entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers, but that in the public condition this ordering is reversed. Data from a … follow-up survey suggest that social image concerns of entrepreneurs and perceived norms can explain why entrepreneurs are …

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …