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- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
- Working Knowledge
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
by William R. Kerr
At this time of crisis, America risks signaling to global innovators and entrepreneurs that they have no future here, says William R. Kerr.
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- 08 Jun 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy
by William R. Kerr
High-skilled workers in today’s knowledge-based economy are arguably the most important resource to the success of businesses, regions, and industries. This chapter pulls from Kerr’s book The Gift of Global Talent to examine the migration dynamics of high-skilled...
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- 30 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
by William R. Kerr
In this paper, HBS professor William R. Kerr investigates whether breakthrough inventions draw subsequent research efforts for a technology to a local area. Evidence strongly supports the conclusion that centers of breakthrough innovations experience subsequent growth in innovation relative to...
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- 14 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
by William R. Kerr
...these ethnic contributions and the importance of innovation to regional economic growth. William R. Kerr's study contributes to our empirical understanding of agglomeration and innovation by documenting patterns in the city-level agglomeration of ethnic inventors (e.g., Chinese, Indian) within the...
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- 20 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
by William R. Kerr
Alternatively, changes in social preferences can counteract inequality increases. William Kerr characterizes how changes in inequality affect social attitudes towards government-led redistribution and compensation differentials. The results of this study provide mixed evidence regarding the vicious-cycle...
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- 08 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project
by William R. Kerr & Shihe Fu
...research and development and technology diffusion, they run into two significant data constraints. William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu describe how they developed a new dataset for studying corporate innovation that encompasses three important existing datasets. This paper summarizes the Industry R&D Survey...
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- 23 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations
by Ufuk Akcigit & William R. Kerr
...internally). From the choices made by individual firms and new entrepreneurs, the model then builds to consider aggregate economic growth. Research was conducted by Ufuk Akcigit of the University of Pennsylvania and William R. Kerr of Harvard Business School. Key concepts include: Exploration R&D...
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- 12 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors
by William R. Kerr
The contributions of immigrants to U.S. technology formation are staggering. While the foreign-born account for just over 10 percent of the U.S. working population, they represent 25 percent of the U.S. science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those...
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- 27 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Labor Regulations and European Private Equity
by Ant Bozkaya & William R. Kerr
Recent theoretical models predict that countries with stricter labor policies will specialize in less innovative activities due to the higher worker turnover frequently associated with rapidly changing sectors. HBS visiting scholar Ant Bozkaya and HBS professor William R. Kerr examine how...
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- 11 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
...policymakers worldwide. In this paper HBS professors William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda review two major streams of research examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. They then introduce a framework that provides a unified perspective on these research streams, thereby...
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- 11 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
...sector can thus have important effects on entrepreneurship in product markets. As HBS professors William Kerr and Ramana Nanda explain, the 1970s through the mid-1990s was a period of significant liberalization in the ability of banks to establish branches and to expand across state borders, either...
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- 05 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
by William R. Kerr
The principle of Ricardian technology differences as a source of trade is well established in the theory of international economics. This theory argues that countries can focus on producing products in which they have comparative productivity advantages; subsequent...
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- 19 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
by William R. Kerr
In the 2008 Current Population Survey, immigrants represented 16 percent of the United States workforce with a bachelor's education. Moreover, immigrants accounted for 29 percent of the growth in this workforce during the 1995-2008 period. Exceeding these strong...
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- 28 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
by William R. Kerr & Scott Duke Kominers
HBS professor William R. Kerr and doctoral candidate Scott Duke Kominers develop a theoretical model for analyzing the forces that drive agglomeration, or industrial clustering. It is rare that researchers systematically observe the forces like technology sharing, customer/supplier interactions, or...
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- 21 Jan 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention
by William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln
...levels are for U.S. technology advancement and whether native U.S. workers are being displaced by immigrants. In this study, Kerr and Lincoln quantify the impact of changes in H-1B admission levels on the pace and character of U.S. invention over the 1995-2006 period. Key concepts include:...
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- 07 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
This study compares United States-born and immigrant entrepreneurs’ use of networking opportunities provided by CIC, the former Cambridge Innovation Center. Immigrants clearly take more advantage of networking opportunities at CIC, especially around the exchange of...
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- 18 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
Immigrant entrepreneurship is a topic of key policy interest but one with few facts. The authors construct a data platform using US Census Bureau administrative data to provide new statistics on the patterns of business formation by immigrant entrepreneurs and on the...
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- 23 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
International migration is a mighty force globally. According to United Nations statistics, over 175 million people, accounting for 3 percent of the world's population, live permanently outside their countries of birth. This paper surveys the economic impacts of...
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- 10 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell
In South Asia, which regional traits encourage local entrepreneurship? While multiple studies have considered this question in advanced economies, especially for the manufacturing sector, there has been very little empirical evidence for developing countries like...
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- 22 Apr 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012
by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
How do businesses created by immigrants differ from those of natives? This study using the 2007 and 2012 Survey of Business Owners records finds that while immigrant-owned businesses have a modestly different industry composition than native-owned businesses, there are...
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