Innovation is central to long-run economic growth. This chapter summarizes the state of the
literature on the economics of innovation, highlighting open policy questions. We first …

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies
focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national …

The more than doubling of the number of foreign-born residents of developed countries
since 1980 has triggered a high level of research activity regarding the economic …

Negli Stati Uniti l'economia postindustriale, basata sul sapere e sull'innovazione, sta
cambiando profondamente il mercato del lavoro, sia per la tipologia dei beni prodotti sia per …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on immigrant
entrepreneurship since the mid-2000s to examine the changing trends, variations and …

Through an analysis of 497 foreign researchers in Italy and Portugal we verify the impact of
home linkages on return mobility choices and scientific productivity. We consider the …

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in
papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers …

We study the contribution of doctoral students to innovation at 2,300 American science and
engineering departments from 1973 to 1998. Macroeconomic and policy shocks in source …

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially
following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top 1% of US …

Highly skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce input into firms' productive
and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive …