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Higher education, international student mobility, and regional innovation in non‐core regions: International student start‐ups on 'the rock'
- Source :
- The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien. 66:234-247
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper makes a case for post-graduate international students as an increasingly important category of immigrant entrepreneur in Canada. We draw our findings from an analysis of new provincial immigrant entrepreneur programs and interviews with international student entrepreneurs in a mid-sized city in Atlantic Canada. We argue that three forces have become increasingly relevant in shaping immigrant entrepreneurs' opportunity structures: (1) the internationalization of higher education institutions (HEIs), (2) the corporatization of HEIs, and (3) the regionalization of immigration. We show how public policy shifts in immigration and education have expanded the opportunity structure for international student start-ups. These entrepreneurs are navigating multiple dimensions of risk that stem from being both temporary migrants and business owners.
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
Higher education
business.industry
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05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
Immigration
050301 education
Public policy
Start up
Corporatization
Internationalization of Higher Education
Core (game theory)
Political science
0502 economics and business
8. Economic growth
Opportunity structures
business
0503 education
050203 business & management
Earth-Surface Processes
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15410064 and 00083658
- Volume :
- 66
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........53e38df9b167fc30b96b44b7ae458a20