The Contribution of Skilled Immigration and International Graduate Students to U.S. Innovation
By G. Chellaraj, Keith E. Maskus, Aaditya Mattoo. 2005
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The impact of international students and skilled immigration in the United States on innovative activity is estimated using a model of idea generation. In the main specification a system of three equations is estimated, where dependent variables are total patent applications, patents awarded to U.S. universities, and patents awarded to other U.S. entities, each scaled by the domestic labor force. Results indicate that both international graduate students and skilled immigrants have a significant and positive impact on future patent applications, as well as on future patents awarded to university and nonuniversity institutions. The central estimates suggest that a 10 percent increase in the number of foreign graduate students would raise patent applications by 4.7 percent, university patent grants by 5.3 percent, and nonuniversity patent grants by 6.7 percent. Thus, reductions in foreign graduate students from visa restrictions could significantly reduce U.S. innovative activity. Increases in skilled immigration also have a positive, but smaller, impact on patenting.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation
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- The innovative performance of firms in heterogeneous environments: the interplay between external knowledge and internal absorptive capacities (2018, background): “They capture the traditional concept popularized by Cohen and Levinthal (1990) and refer to the actual capability of firms to understand and process knowledge.”
- Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa (2011, unknown): “5 On immigration and patenting, see also Morgan, Kruytbosch, and Kannankutty (2003), Peri (2007), and Chellaraj, Maskus, and Mattoo (2008).”
- How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation? (2009, unknown): “[11] Chellaraj, G.”
- China in the global field of international student mobility: an analysis of economic, human and symbolic capitals (2020, background): “With respect to the US context, research has noted that international graduate students contribute significantly to the research and innovation output of their institutions (Chellaraj, Maskus, and Mattoo 2005).”