The Influence of Home Country Factors on Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.

• Main Author: Akens-Irby, Kayalin
• Format: Others
• Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2018
• Subjects: Immigrant; Entrepreneurship; China; India; Innovation; Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations; Growth and Development; International Economics
• Online Access: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1974; http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2912&context=cmc_theses

This paper uses a Poisson regression model to determine the effects of entrepreneurial conditions of home countries on immigrant founded startup activity in the United States. The study determines that the most relevant factors are innovation, internal market dynamics, governmental support and policies, financing, and internal market openness. It then analyzes the change rates of these entrepreneurial conditions between 2007 and 2017 in China, India, and the United States to determine the implications of changing power dynamics in the global economy on flows of immigrant entrepreneurship and innovation in the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. The study finds that after being in the lead in 2007, the United States had fallen behind China and India in all entrepreneurial conditions, with the exception of innovation, by 2017. With the way trends are moving, this paper predicts that innovation in the U.S. will be the next metric to fall behind.