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 …

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 …

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

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 …

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …

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

In this paper we study the effect of unions on product and process innovation both theoretically and empirically. We … innovation does not necessarily survive. When the voice effect is neither too strong nor too low, the unionized sector … outperforms the market in terms of process innovation, while the effect on product innovation is strictly increasing in the voice …

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 …