Expanding Entrepreneurship
Female and Foreign-Born Founders of New England Biotechnology Firms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3756713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Mcquaid (Boston University, MA, USA), Laurel Smith-Doerr (0000-0002-5162-0491, Boston University, MA, USA,, corresponding author), Daniel J Monti (Saint Louis University, MO, USA) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1045-1063 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764209356238 |
| OpenAlex | W2013609468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 27 |
Research on immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States has focused on small businesses in the retail and food service sectors rather than on high-technology start ups. Scholarship on women and immigrants in the U.S. science and technology workforce has focused on academia rather than scientists in industry. This article aims to bridge the gaps in these two literatures by examining the role of women and immigrants in founding science-based biotechnology firms. This research thus speaks to the sociological perspective on power inequalities for women and foreign-born people in entrepreneurship and in the U.S. science and technology workforce. Opportunities and barriers vary by organizational context, and the flexibility of the biotechnology industry has previously been found to benefit female scientists. But what of foreign-born scientists and women who play founding roles in biotech firms? A survey conducted of 261 biotechnology firms located in Massachusetts and New England in 2006 provides the data. The results show that 42% of the firms had at least one foreign-born founder, and 21% of firms had at least one female founder. These numbers suggest that foreign-born life scientists are well represented and female life scientists are somewhat underrepresented in founding roles in biotech. The role of entrepreneurs who have the double status of female immigrants is less clear and needs further study. The research finds significant variation in biotech entrepreneurship of immigrants by their world region of origin. Interviews supplement the survey data to illustrate the barriers and opportunities for foreign-born biotech entrepreneurs
Biology · Business · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Foreign born · Immigration · Political science · Scholarship · Small business · Sociology · Workforce · Biotechnology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Marketing · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Women entrepreneurs in and from developing countries
Feminist perspectives on gender and technology entrepreneurship in incubator settings
Insights on the glass ceiling for immigrant women entrepreneurs in the technology sector
Entrepreneurial experiences of women in Canadian high technology
Earnings of foreign-born doctoral engineers in the United States
Systematic review of immigrant entrepreneurship literature
Research in Organizational Behavior
Local Nodes in Global Networks
Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits
Brain Circulation
The Forms of Capital
Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Asian Americans
Embeddedness and Immigration
Transnational Entrepreneurs
Networks and Economic life
Immigrant Entrepreneurs in 272 SMSAs
Beyond the Ethnic Enclave Economy
Women Inventors in Context
Network Forms of Organization
Network Dynamics and Field Evolution
Immigrant enterprise
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |