How to escape scientific stagnation
Danielle Li and Pierre Azoulay note that the DARPA model does best when its directors have an understanding of needed breakthroughs.
Danielle Li and Pierre Azoulay note that the DARPA model does best when its directors have an understanding of needed breakthroughs.
"Immigrants found more firms in every bucket. ... They create all kinds of businesses, and they create a lot of them."
"Immigrants create more firms pretty much in every size bucket."
"MIT was my top choice because I valued its emphasis on technology and innovation."
"We want randomized controlled trials to come to the world of scientific training and scientific funding."
“It is impossible to accurately measure the incidence of...one-in-a-million ideas on a timescale relevant to political decision-making.”
Pierre Azoulay...said he and his co-authors had a "data window into entrepreneurship" that hadn't previously been available to researchers.
A new study looks at how immigration shapes the economy, analyzing immigrants' contributions as both employees and founders.
According to a July 2020 study, authored by Pierre Azoulay and others, immigrants are 80% more likely to be entrepreneurs than natives in the US.