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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009
In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally … entrepreneurs ; High Tech ; High Impact Firm ; Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887158
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
Kerr, William - 2015
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
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The Leveraging of Silicon Valley
Davis, Jesse - 2020
Early-stage firms utilize venture debt in one-third of financing rounds despite their general lack of cash flow and collateral. In our model, we show how venture debt aligns incentives within a firm. We derive a novel theoretical channel in which runway extension through debt increases firm...
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Chapter 15. The Market for Technology
Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - 2010
This chapter reviews the growing literature on the “market for technology,” a broad term that denotes trade in technology disembodied from physical goods. The market for technology flourished during the nineteenth century in the United States. After several decades of relative decline, the...
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Evaluations of export feasibility by immigrant and non-immigrant entrepreneurs in new technology-based firms
Bolzani, Daniela; Boari, Cristina - In: Journal of international entrepreneurship 16 (2018) 2, pp. 176-209
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Immigrant entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
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The dynamics of entrepreneurial careers in high-tech ventures : experience, education, and exit
Cumming, Douglas J.; Walz, Uwe; Werth, Jochen - 2015
online database indicate that founders stick with entrepreneurship as a serial entrepreneur or as an angel investor only in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436054
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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013
measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
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Skills, scope, and success : an empirical look at the start-up process in creative industries in Germany
Kohn, Karsten; Wewel, Solvejg A. - 2018
household income. Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …
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