to fostering innovation. …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

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 … entrepreneurship, except that it is rapidly growing in importance. …

The extant literature linking slack time to innovation focuses on how slack time facilitates creative activities such … are less creative but still important for innovation, namely mundane, execution-oriented tasks. First, we document the …, we report timing and project type evidence consistent with the causal interpretation that slack time drives innovation …

. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (S&T) country significantly increases the probability of firm …

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …