Friday, January 05, 2007

Foreign brains behind US tech firms

Foreign-born entrepreneurs were behind one in four technology startups in the United States over the past decade, a new report has revealed. A team of researchers at Duke University estimated 25.3 per cent of technology and engineering companies started between 1995 and 2005 had founders, chief executives, presidents or chief technology officers who were born outside the United States. A striking result, given that just 11.7 per cent of the US population is foreign-born.

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