The unlikely encounter: Is ethnic diversity in start-ups associated with innovation?

Brixy, Udo; Brunow, Stephan; D’Ambrosio, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2020.103950

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“…Thus, ethnic diverse co-authorship may reduce obstacles to innovation to a certain extent, and thereby have a positive effect on novelty. We further mention that Brixy et al (2020) found, in a study on newly founded firms in Germany, that unusual combinations ethnic backgrounds had a positive association with the probability of a start-up introducing an innovation.…”

Section: H2 Ethnic Diversity Has Positive Effects On Noveltymentioning

confidence: 72%

The link between ethnic diversity and scientific impact: the mediating effect of novelty and audience diversity

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Understanding the nature and value of scientific collaboration is essential for sound management and proactive research policies. One component of collaboration is the composition and diversity of contributing authors. This study explores how ethnic diversity in scientific collaboration affects scientific impact, by presenting a conceptual model to connect ethnic diversity, based on author names, with scientific impact, assuming novelty and audience diversity as mediators. The model also controls for affiliated country diversity and affiliated country size. Using path modeling, we apply the model to the Web of Science subject categories Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Ecology and Information Science & Library. For all three subject categories, and regardless of if control variables are considered or not, we find a weak positive relationship between ethnic diversity and scientific impact. The relationship is weaker, however, when control variables are included. For all three fields, the mediated effect through audience diversity is substantially stronger than the mediated effect through novelty in the relationship, and the former effect is much stronger than the direct effect between the ethnic diversity and scientific impact. Our findings further suggest that ethnic diversity is more associated with short-term scientific impact compared to long-term scientific impact.

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Section: H2 Ethnic Diversity Has Positive Effects On Noveltymentioning

confidence: 72%

The link between ethnic diversity and scientific impact: the mediating effect of novelty and audience diversity

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“…Once highly skilled immigrants become entrepreneurs, research by Brown et al (2020) suggests that innovation is higher for high-tech entrepreneurial firms headed by immigrants than by natives. Combining these findings of the role of entrepreneurship on innovation with the previous discussion about the role of diversity, Brixy et al (2020) examine new firms in Germany to find that the more innovative entrepreneurial firms are also more ethnically diverse.…”

Section: Do More Highly Skilled Workers Cause Innovation?mentioning

confidence: 92%

The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation

Bansak

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Coon

2021

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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This chapter examines the link between skilled workers and innovation, and the political economy that affects this relationship. With a focus on the current state of research in this area, the chapter first summarizes the new evidence on the connections between skilled labor and innovation relating to knowledge development, entrepreneurship, teams, diversity, and brain drain. The second section discusses the possibility for reverse causalitynamely, that innovation can be a driver of the demand for high-skilled labor. In the following section, connections are made between public policies related to education systems, immigration, patent systems, intellectual property, public-private partnerships and amenities, and the possible effect on the level of skilled workers in various labor markets. The recent research is largely focused on the USA and OECD countries, and empirical evidence is provided using current data that corroborates the results of many of the reviewed studies. The final section lists resources for researchers aiming to move forward on the frontier of this line of research.

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“…There is an ongoing effort to define and measure diversity and due to the nature of diversity itself, the definition could depend on the phenomenon under consideration, namely heterogeneity, compositional aspects and size dominance of groups (Jost, 2007). Examples include Alesina et al, 2016;Brixy et al, 2020;Dale-Olsen & Finseraas, 2020;Desmet et al, 2009;Fearon, 2003;Grinza et al, 2018;Montalvo & Reynal-Querol, 2005; Commonly used metrics in the literature so far include fractionalization indices (Alesina et al, 2003), exposure measures (Massey & Denton, 1988) and (spatial) segregation indices (Massey & Denton, 1988;. Evidently, these metrics offer a trade-off between defining diversity through its single or multiple attributes (see Section 2.2).…”

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The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market

Özgen

2021

SSRN Journal

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The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context-dependent and data-driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity and the labour market. It presents a structured framework which takes the spatial scale of the analysis in the papers as a reference to understand the inconsistency of some previous predictions and the varying magnitudes of the diversity impact. The empirical findings reconcile more meaningfully when diversity effects are documented discretely at the regional, firm and individual levels. The paper further sets out an agenda for future research and links the findings for policy relevance.

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The unlikely encounter: Is ethnic diversity in start-ups associated with innovation?

Cited by 27 publications

References 74 publications

The link between ethnic diversity and scientific impact: the mediating effect of novelty and audience diversity

The link between ethnic diversity and scientific impact: the mediating effect of novelty and audience diversity

The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation

The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market

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