Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate … entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with … access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon’s market. This …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …

spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …