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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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A Structural Equations Model for Assessing the Economic Performance of High-Tech Ethnic Entrepreneurs

Sahin, Mediha; Todiras, Alina; Nijkamp, Peter; Neuts, Bart - 2013

In this paper we develop and test a conceptual model of the key relationships concerning the business performance and success of ethnic entrepreneurs. To that end, an explanatory modei 'GALAXY' is presented which serves as a framework for mapping out the impact that various background factors...

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High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System : Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

Graham, Stuart J.H; Merges, Robert P.; Samuelson, Pamela; … - 2015

We offer description and analysis of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey, summarizing the responses of 1,332 U.S.-based technology startups in the biotechnology, medical device, IT hardware, software, and Internet sectors. We discover that holding patents is more widespread among technology startups...

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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms

Grilli, Luca; Jensen, Paul H.; Murtinu, Samuele - 2014

This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect’ of founders’ human capital on entrepreneurial ventures’ performance. More specifically, we empirically explore the impact of entrepreneurs’ human capital on a firm’s sales growth performance by disentangling the...

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Human Capital of Entrepreneurial Teams in Nascent High-Tech Sectors : A Comparison between Cleantech and Internet

Garrone, Paola; Grilli, Luca; Mrkajic, Boris - 2017

We use an inductive approach to understand what types of founders’ human capital, at individual and team levels, are necessary to recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. A sample of 195 founders who teamed up in the nascent phases of Cleantech and Interned-based sectors is...

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Government, Venture Capital and the Growth of European High-Tech Entrepreneurial Firms

Grilli, Luca - 2014

Using a new European Union-sponsored firm-level longitudinal dataset, we assess the impact of government-managed (GVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) funds on the sales and employee growth of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Our results show that the main statistically robust and...

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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron - 2021

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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Multicultural migrant firms : evidence from Italy

Arrighetti, Alessandro; Lasagni, Andrea; Semenza, Renata - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 11 (2023) 4, pp. 7-24

entrepreneurship and they play an important role in the processes of integration between actors of different cultures and nationalities … the relationship between migration and entrepreneurship highlighting the importance and specificity of MMFs, which is a … relevant under-researched segment of migrant entrepreneurship. Our work shows how the boundaries between native and immigrant …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2017

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019

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