-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar … at most 9 workers in the US and the UK and at most 19 workers in Canada. The Index aggregates a sample of anonymous … QuickBooks Online Payroll subscriber data (QBO Payroll sample) from 333,000 businesses in the US, 66,000 in Canada, and 25,000 in …

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 …

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 …

locations. In 12 of these areas, innovation is particularly concentrated in a single, large firm; we refer to such locations as …

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