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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

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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Engineers as high-tech entrepreneurs : French engineers' paths to entrepreneurship

Fayolle, Alain - In: High-tech entrepreneurship : managing innovation, …, (pp. 50-68). 2006

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Educating engineers to develop new business models : exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities in technology-based firms

Snihur, Yuliya; Lamine, Wadid; Wright, Mike - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 164 (2021), pp. 1-12

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Collaborative Advantage : Globalization of Innovation and Engineering

Lynn, Leonard H.; Salzman, Hal - 2013

As the U.S. loses its monopoly in high technology, policymakers are calling for increases in the number of science and technology graduates and in R&D investment. We believe these proposals fail to recognize what is distinctive about the emerging global economy. Our studies of engineering in...

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Innovation Capabilities : Comparing Science and Engineering Employment in Canadian and U.S. Cities

Beckstead, Desmond; Brown, W. Mark - 2009

In recent years, cities have become increasingly interested in their ability to generate, attract and retain human capital. One measure of human capital is employment in science and engineering-based occupations. This paper provides a comparison of the employment shares of these specialized...

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Innovation Capabilities : Science and Engineering Employment in Canada and the United States

Beckstead, Desmond; Gellatly, Guy - 2009

This paper compares the size and composition of science and engineering employment in Canada and the United States. It examines the share of paid employment and paid earnings accounted for by the science and engineering workforce in both countries. Our tabulations distinguish between a core...

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Cities and Growth : The Left Brain of North American Cities: Scientists and Engineers and Urban Growth

Beckstead, Desmond - 2013

This paper examines the growth of human capital in Canadian and U.S. cities. Using pooled Census of Population data for 242 urban centres, we evaluate the link between long run employment growth and the supply of different types of skilled labour. The paper also examines whether the scientific...

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Can Early-Stage Startups Hire Talented Scientists and Engineers? Ability, Preferences, and Employee Job Choice

Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry - 2022

Early-stage technology startups rely critically on talented scientists and engineers to commercialize new technologies. And yet, they compete with large technology firms to hire the best workers. Theories of ability sorting predict that high ability workers will choose jobs in established firms...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : The Effect of Early Career Immigration Constraints and Job-Education Match on Science and Engineering Workforce

Agarwal, Rajshree; Ganco, Martin; Raffiee, Joseph - 2021

entrepreneurship, while accounting for (un-)observed differences in preferences and human capital between natives and immigrants. These … constraints limit early career entrepreneurship and deflect individuals into jobs closely matched to their education in their … related to transitions into entrepreneurship, our framework suggests constraints imposed by the immigration system, coupled …

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Regulatory focus in start-ups versus established firms in the high-tech industry

Barkan, Sharon - In: Handbook of research on high-technology entrepreneurs, (pp. 210-218). 2010

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