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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups

Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020

reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …

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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 … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

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An integrated analysis of the impact of gender diversity on innovation and productivity in manufacturing firms : prepared for the institutions for development sector

Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2018

This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...

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Global Collaborative Patents

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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