Communities, Knowledge, and Innovation: Indian Immigrants in the US Semiconductor Industry

Paul Almeida (), Anupama Phene () and Sali Li ()
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Paul Almeida: Georgetown University
Anupama Phene: George Washington University
Sali Li: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

No 58, Working Papers from globADVANTAGE, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

Abstract: This paper investigates the influence of technological, geographic, and ethnic communities on the innovativeness of Indian inventors. We study Indian inventors in the semiconductor industry in the US and examine their patenting profiles between 1975 and 1999 to identify the influences on the quantity and quality of their innovations. We find that inventors who rely on knowledge from technological and geographic communities enhance their innovativeness. Knowledge from the ethnic Indian community is related to inventor innovativeness in the form of an inverted U. The negative effect of knowledge gained from the ethnic community on innovativeness is pronounced for experienced inventors.

Keywords: innovation; knowledge; semiconductor industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M0 M1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03-24
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