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 …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at …

international and domestic deals. In regimes with strict nexus requirements, reducing the tax rate on patent income is associated … with reductions in the number of deals and the probability of being acquired for patent-owning firms due to the potential …

processes. We treated R&D expenditures and human resources in science and technology as the input measures and patent … applications to the European Patent Office as the output measure in our basic and extended models. The results show that the scope … engaged. These findings contribute to the current debate in the geography of innovation and economics of knowledge literature. …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at …