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Immigrant entrepreneurship and agglomeration in high-tech industries in the USA

In: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy

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  • Cathy Yang Liu
  • Gary Painter
  • Qingfang Wang

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Immigrants’ participation in high-tech industries as both workers and business owners has increased steadily since 2000, at a faster rate than that of their US-born counterparts. Immigrant-owned high-tech businesses are more concentrated in a limited number of industries, such as computer sciences and medical and pharmaceutical-related fields. While the largest immigrant gateways account for a dominant share of all immigrant high-tech entrepreneurs in the country in 2011, new immigrant destinations in the South and West have seen significant increase of immigrants in high-tech industries. For both immigrants and the US-born, a higher number of high-tech businesses is positively associated with regional labor markets that have an overall higher percentage of high-tech industries. At the same time, higher ethnic diversity and a larger share of the foreign-born population are crucial factors in attracting or fostering immigrant high-tech entrepreneurship at the metropolitan level.

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  • Cathy Yang Liu & Gary Painter & Qingfang Wang, 2015. "Immigrant entrepreneurship and agglomeration in high-tech industries in the USA," Chapters, in: Charlie Karlsson & Urban Gråsjö & Sofia Wixe (ed.), Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy, chapter 8, pages 184-209, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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