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 …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …

Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …

. In order for the continent to benefit from the 4IR more needs to be done to improve entrepreneurship and education. A … number of policy recommendations for 4IRcompatible entrepreneurship and education policies are made …

start-up entrepreneurship. In this light I (i) show why manufacturing is vital for African economies, (ii) critically … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …

for more research on digital entrepreneurship.As such, this paper provides an overview of the central research questions … currently being pursued in this field. These include questions such as: What is digital entrepreneurship? What is different in … models and entrepreneurship? How can digital entrepreneurship be supported and regulated? The paper identifies areas of …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned …

Entrepreneurship Monitor's Adult Population Survey of 63 countries over 2002–2010 and find robust support for these hypotheses …