Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …

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 …

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

are immigrants. We utilize the Annual Business Survey to quantify the greater rates of patenting and innovation in … immigrant-founded firms. This higher propensity towards innovation is only partly explained by differences in education levels …