Migration and Innovation from an historical perspective
Scientific-Disciplinary Group
13/ECON-04 - Applied Economics
Description
International migration is an important channel for accessingforeign knowledge. Historical accounts show that migrants havelong served as carriers of knowledge, yet quantitative evidenceremains scant. This project aims to fill this gap by providing acomprehensive quantitative analysis of the geographicaldistribution of immigrants’ inventive activity during the Age ofMass Migration in the US. The project will build new datasetsdrawing on a variety of sources – e.g. historical patent records,census data, and bibliographic information - and leveragingcomputational models (e.g., LLMs). Using these new datasets,the project will reconstruct migrants’ mobility patterns in bothdestination and sending countries, trace their lifelong inventivehistories, and assess their impact on host and origin regions. Todisseminate the findings, the project will organize dedicatedworkshops and special sessions at major conferences.
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Funding body
Università di Pavia
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