The Internationalization of Science and its Influence on Academic Entrepreneurship
- author
- Published
- 2009-04-02
- Number of discussion paper
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2009-026
- keyword(s)
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Academic Entrepreneurship
Human Capital
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Knowledge Transfer
Scientific Mobility
- abstract
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We conjecture that the mobility of academic scientists increases the propensity of such agents to engage in academic entrepreneurship. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of researchers at the Max Planck Society in Germany. We find that mobile scientists are more likely to become nascent entrepreneurs. Thus, it appears that citizenship and foreign-education are important determinants of the early stages of academic entrepreneurship.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- entrepreneurship
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L26 - Entrepreneurship ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
