Published in:Bocconi University Management Research Paper
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1 Online-Ressource (81 p)
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English
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In: Bocconi University Management Research Paper
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 7, 2021 erstellt
Description:
More than 30 million people migrated to the US between late-ninetieth- and earlytwentieth- century, and thousands became inventors. Drawing on a novel dataset of immigrant inventors in the US, we assess the city-level impact of immigrants’ patenting and their contribution to the technological specialization of the receiving US regions between 1870 and 1940. Our results show that native inventors benefited from the inventive activity of immigrants. In addition, we show that the knowledge transferred by immigrants gave rise to new and previously not exiting technological fields in the US regions where immigrants moved to