We identified three major characteristics of migrant entrepreneurs at the individual and organisational level: risk-taking and bricolage attitude, making extensive use of social and cultural capital, and transnational embeddedness. Perseverance and creativity not only prompt entrepreneurs to set...

Kansas City followed a markedly different path of economic development than more prominent entrepreneurial regions such as Silicon Valley or Boston's Route 128. Kansas City's life sciences and technology industries evolved primarily through entrepreneurial spin-off processes, and a few large...