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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021
present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237260
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Creative Destruction in Industries
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2010
Most industries go through a quot;shakeoutquot; phase during which the number of producers in the industry declines. Industry output generally continues to rise, however, which implies a reallocation of capacity from exiting firms to incumbents and new entrants. Thus shakeouts seem to be classic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760646
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2014
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066279
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068289
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups Versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
concerned with the supply of human capital to entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964403
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Youth Drain, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Anelli, Massimo - 2020
Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas. We exploit exogenous variation in emigration from Italian local labor markets to show that between 2008 and 2015 larger emigration flows reduced firm creation. The decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839784
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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”
Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017
quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960171
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892563
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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship : Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Kerr, William - 2014
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063124
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Chatterji, Aaron - 2014
This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063998