Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant High-Growth Entrepreneurs

By AnnaLee Saxenian. 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Transnational activities of immigrant-owned firms and their performances in the USA (2014, background): “For instance, in Silicon Valley, the transnational flow of ideas, human capital, and financial capital between immigrant entrepreneurs and their home countries in the Asia Pacific expanded their business opportunities and fueled the fast growth of the regional economy (Saxenian 2002).”
Entrepreneurs and Job Growth: Probing the Boundaries of Time and Space (2010, background): “On a case study basis, Saxenian (2002) found that skilled immigrant entrepreneurs generated jobs, exports, and new wealth for the Silicon Valley region.”
Immigration and Entrepreneurship (2015, background): “More directly related to business ownership, immigrants are also over-represented among founders of high-tech companies (Saxenian, 2002; Wadhwa et al., 2007), biotech firms (Monti et al.”
The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review (2017, background): “Following the publication of a number of studies focused on entrepreneurship of high-skilled immigrants (Anderson & Platzer, 2006; Drori, Honig, & Wright, 2009; Kerr, 2013; Saxenian, 2002; Wadhwa, Saxenian, & Siciliano, 2012), Alonso-Villar (2002, p.”
The Supply Side of Innovation: H‐1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention (2010, methodology): “We quantify ethnic technology development in the United States through the individual records of all patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Ofﬁce (USPTO) from January 1975 to May 2009.”
Supporting rural entrepreneurship: a review of conceptual developments from research to practice (2014, background): “…course of American cities – like Koreans in Los Angeles (Light & Bonacich, 1991) or more recently, Hispanics in Las Vegas (Shinnar & Young, 2008) – to immigrants’ roles in the high-growth, high-tech economy – like Indian and Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley (Saxenian, 2002, 1999).”
High Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies and Economic Growth (2007, background): “Boosted by liberal immigration policies that allow technically trained immigrants to become entrepreneurs (see Saxenian 2002 ) , as well as policies that support flexible labor markets (see Chesbrough 1999) , high-growth entrepreneurship has been supported.”
Multiculturalism and Entrepreneurial Intentions: Understanding the Mediating Role of Cognitions (2018, unknown): “…1997; Davidsson, 1995; Fairchild, 2010; Fairlie, 2013; Florida, 2002; Hart & Acs, 2011; Kerr, 2013; Light, 2001; Li~n an & Fayolle, 2015; Quan, 2012; Saxenian, 2002, 2006; Wadhwa & Salkever, 2012; Wadhwa, Saxenian, Rissing, & Gereffi, 2007) indicate that biculturals, such as immigrants and their…”
The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries (2013, unknown): “Saxenian (2002) finds that that skilled migrants make up 1/3 of the Bay Area ’ s engineers, with two-thirds born in Asia and three quarters of these from China and India.”
STEM Workers, H-1B Visas, and Productivity in US Cities (2015, unknown): “Other studies have shown the tendency of innovation-and idea-intensive industries to agglomerate (Ellison and Glaeser (1999)) and for ideas to remain local and generate virtuous cycles of innovation (Ja ﬀ e et al. (1993), Saxenian (2002)).”
High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States (2011, background): “Saxenian (2002) pioneered research focused specifically on high-tech immigrant entrepreneurship.”
Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012 (2020, unknown): “We further anticipate the benefits of this advantage to be greater with hightech industries given the anecdotal and empirical accounts of global ethnic networks within high-tech industries (e.g., Kerr, 2008; Saxenian, 2002) and the typically greater market span for these products.”
Academic Entrepreneurs: Organizational Change at the Individual Level (2008, result): “This finding is consistent with other studies that document high levels of entrepreneurial activity in many immigrant communities (Aldrich 1999, Saxenian 2002 ).”
Human geography and the institutions that underlie economic growth (2011, background): “Others have looked at the role of interpersonal and interfirm networks on local industry clusters (Pinch and Henry, 1999; Sturgeon, 2003), FDI (Coe et al., 2004; Glückler, 2006) and entrepreneurship (Saxenian, 2002).”
Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion (2007, background): “In surveys of Silicon Valley, 82% of Chinese and Indian immigrant scientists and engineers report exchanging technical information with their respective nations; 18% further invest in business partnerships (Saxenian 2002a,b).”
Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions (2014, background): “These studies corroborate influential anecdotal evidence arguing a role for highly skilled engineers and entrepreneurs, especially immigrants (Saxenian 2002a, 2002b), in innovation and growth (Saxenian 1994).”