Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Paul Almeida
Author-Email: almeidap@georgetown.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Georgetown University
Author-Name: Anupama Phene
Author-Email: anuphene@gwu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: George Washington University
Author-Name: Sali Li
Author-Email: li9@uwm.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Title: Communities, Knowledge, and Innovation: Indian Immigrants in the US Semiconductor Industry
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. 
Creation-Date: 2010-03-24
File-URL: https://globadvantage.ipleiria.pt/files/2010/03/working_paper-58_globadvantage.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 58
Classification-JEL: M0, M1
Keywords: innovation, knowledge, semiconductor industry
Handle: RePEc:pil:wpaper:58