Land of Opportunity: In the U.S., Immigrants and Entrepreneurs Are Increasingly the Same
Consider these numbers: One in four technology and engineering companies founded in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005 had at least one founder who was foreign-born, many of them from India and China; nationwide, immigrant-founded companies generated $52 billion in sales in 2005 and employed 450,000 peo...
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sg-smu-ink.ksmu-12182018-07-06T04:24:34Z Land of Opportunity: In the U.S., Immigrants and Entrepreneurs Are Increasingly the Same Knowledge@SMU Consider these numbers: One in four technology and engineering companies founded in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005 had at least one founder who was foreign-born, many of them from India and China; nationwide, immigrant-founded companies generated $52 billion in sales in 2005 and employed 450,000 people; immigrant non-citizens in the U.S. were either named as the inventor or co-inventor in 24.2% of patent applications filed in 2006. These are some of the findings of a recent study titled, "America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs," by Vivek Wadhwa, an executive in residence at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, and a team of researchers. 2007-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/219 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1218&context=ksmu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Knowledge@SMU eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Law |
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Consider these numbers: One in four technology and engineering companies founded in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005 had at least one founder who was foreign-born, many of them from India and China; nationwide, immigrant-founded companies generated $52 billion in sales in 2005 and employed 450,000 people; immigrant non-citizens in the U.S. were either named as the inventor or co-inventor in 24.2% of patent applications filed in 2006. These are some of the findings of a recent study titled, "America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs," by Vivek Wadhwa, an executive in residence at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, and a team of researchers. |
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