The Internationalization of Science and its Influence on Academic Entrepreneurship

Stefan Krabel (), Donald S. Siegel () and Viktor Slavtchev ()
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Stefan Krabel: Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

No 2009-026, Jena Economic Research Papers in Economics from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek

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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