Star scientists, innovation and regional and national immigration

Entrepreneurship and Openness: Theory and Evidence

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 181-211

  Zucker, Lynne G ^a   Darby, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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