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 …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … inventors crowd out native inventors, or an underestimate if immigrants have positive spill-overs on inventors. Using a 1940 …-2000 state panel, we show that immigrants do have positive spill-overs, resulting in an increase in patents per capita of 9 …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

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 …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government … international spillovers, as increases in government-funded R&D in a particular industry and country raise private R&D in the same …

Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation – so that they spend … innovation and productivity growth. In this paper we use new data to examine how the main organizational structure used to train …