Knowledge@SMU
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
3-2007
Abstract
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.
Disciplines
Law
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Article ID
1054
Subject(s)
Law and Public Policy
Citation
Knowledge@SMU.
Land of Opportunity: In the U.S., Immigrants and Entrepreneurs Are Increasingly the Same. (2007).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/219