patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is … scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from … for confounding factors. The first patent application by a young firm is associated with significant growth in employment … three years ahead of the first patent application. However, we find no evidence of additional firm growth after patent …

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 … migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 50 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in … home countries which translate into higher patenting. We complement our results with micro-evidence showing that migrant …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in … home countries, which translates into higher patenting in the receiving countries. We interpret these results as tangible …

patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is … scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …