High-Growth Firms and the Future of the American Economy April 7, 2010 High-growth firms account for a disproportionate share of job creation in the United States, according to this report.
Losing the World’s Best and Brightest: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part V March 14, 2009 Large banks, such as Bank of America, and other U.S. firms are reducing plans to hire foreign national students due to concerns over political backlash amidst growing U.S. job losses. However, this study indicates that lessening the number of foreign national students in U.S. jobs may be detrimental to the economic health of the country by accelerating the return of talented immigrant students to their home countries.
Education and Tech Entrepreneurship April 17, 2009 This report discusses the results of a survey of 652 U.S.-born chief executive officers and heads of product development in 502 engineering and technology companies established from 1995 through 2005 to determine qualities of US-born tech entrepreneurs.
Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain August 17, 2007 More than one million skilled immigrant workers, including scientists, engineers, doctors and researchers and their families, are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain-drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to this report. The situation is even bleaker as the number of employment visas issued to immigrants from any single country is less than 10,000 per year with a wait time of several years.
Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration June 11, 2007 This report tracked the educational backgrounds of immigrant entrepreneurs who were key founders of technology and engineering companies from 1995 to 2005 shows a strong correlation between educational attainment (particularly in science, technology, engineering and math) and entrepreneurship.