The Internationalization of Science and its Influence on Academic Entrepreneurship

Donald S. Siegel (), Stefan Krabel and Viktor Slavtchev ()
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Stefan Krabel: Max Planck Institute of Economics Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group

No 3, Working Papers from Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Academic Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Scientific Mobility; Knowledge Transfer; Immigrant Entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: Written

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