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Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D

Babina, Tania - 2018

This paper studies how corporate research and development (R&D) investment affects labor mobility. We use employer-employee matched data in ordinary least squares and instrumental variables analyses to assess four hypotheses. R&D has no effect on worker retention, exit from employment, or...

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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2014

This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...

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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups Versus Established Firms

Sauermann, Henry - 2017

concerned with the supply of human capital to entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Youth Drain, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Anelli, Massimo - 2020

Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas. We exploit exogenous variation in emigration from Italian local labor markets to show that between 2008 and 2015 larger emigration flows reduced firm creation. The decline...

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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”

Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017

quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …

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

Brown, J. David - 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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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship : Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Kerr, William - 2014

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Chatterji, Aaron - 2014

This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014

We follow the careers 1981-2004 of 5401 star scientists listed in ISI HighlyCitedSM as most highly cited by their peers. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (Samp;T) country significantly increases the probability of firm entry in the Samp;T field in which they are...

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