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 …

affect the overall rate at which innovation occurs in the economy. This essay provides an introduction to and review of the … research on social networks most relevant to innovation, with a particular focus on the earliest stages of the innovation … importance of social relationships to innovation or alter the patterns of relationships in ways that might promote innovation …

employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify … that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to … prevent entry. In laggard sectors it discourages innovation--increased entry threat reduces incumbents' expected rents from …

Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy … entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households … innovative entrepreneurs confounds interpreting this specification. Using education as a measure of potential for innovation, we …

This is an introduction to the forthcoming volume "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth." The … chapters collected in this volume seek to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between innovation/entrepreneurship … and economic growth in specific industrial sectors? How has the relationship between innovation /entrepreneurship and …