Immigrant entrepreneurs play an important role in the U.S. high-tech sector and may advance the country’s collaborative advantage through internationalization and globalization of start-ups. This study explores whether immigrant founding of U.S. high-tech firms, conditional on survival and...

This paper describes the history, development, and current operation of USGBC and LEED, particularly with regard to energy efficiency in commercial buildings, the subsector in which LEED has had its greatest impact. The narrative situates "green building" in a political as well as a business...

In this study, we quantify the role of immigrants in high-tech entrepreneurship in the United States. We report the results of a survey of a nationally representative sample of rapidly growing high-impact, high-tech companies. This group of companies is very important to the U.S. economy,...

Thanks to aggressive state policy measures, New Jersey ranks second to California among the U.S. states in installed photovoltaic electricity generation capacity. However, growth in capacity has stalled recently, due in part to changes in state policy that emphasize Solar Renewable Energy...

This paper argues in favor of four criteria for assessing the performance of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the U.S. President: trying to killing bad ideas (and sometimes succeeding), mobilizing expertise and confidence to support crisis...