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Robust immigration not only brings
more invention by immigrant tech
entrepreneurs, but it appears that
the diversity and energy of new im-
migrants also increases the patent
production rate of non-immigrants.
Harvard Business School Profes-
sor William Kerr studied U.S. patent
production of different metropoli-
tan areas over a 25-year period and
concluded that as metropolitan areas
became more ethnically diverse, they
produced more patents. Subsequent
research established that increasing
a region's share of H-1 B visas for
skilled workers increased the number
of patents applied for by U.S. inven-
tors.
Kerr's work adds to the body of
evidence that, as Duke Business
Professor Vivek Wadhwa states, "Non-
immigrant knowledge workers benefit
from intellectual cross-pollination and
interaction with foreign workers ply-
ing the same trade."

So, Where Do We Go Now?

Fortunately, our region is paving the
way to the job creation and economic
growth opportunities that interna-
tional entrepreneurs like Ben-Gal and
Nemirovsky bring.
Launched in May 2010, Global
Detroit has developed new programs

to retain the 23,700 international
students studying at Michigan col-
leges and universities (a $700 million
export product for our state) after
graduation, to pioneer a near-shoring
strategy with Windsor to attract inter-
national business, to launch a Wel-
coming Michigan campaign to make
the state more open to new talent,
and to coordinate a Welcome Mat net-
work of immigrant service providers.
Other programs focusing on immi-
grant and minority entrepreneurship
in Detroit neighborhoods, assisting
skilled immigrants and refugees
navigating Michigan's professional
licensing requirements, and export
promotion are also in the works.
Gov. Rick Snyder has embraced this
agenda, announcing a Global Michi-
gan effort on the heels of the Global
Detroit launch. Global Michigan will fo-
cus on attracting immigrant investors
in Michigan businesses via the federal
EB-5 investor visa program, as well
as growing the Cultural Ambassadors
program that Snyder helped launch at
Ann Arbor SPARK four years ago.
While Michigan has faced signifi-
cant challenges over the past decade,
our international community has
been a source of strength. Michigan's
immigrants are some of the most tal-
ented, educated, entrepreneurial and

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productive residents of our state and
they have been quietly powering the
growth of the economy in key areas.
For most Jews in Metro Detroit, our
parents and grandparents emigrated
from Europe in the early 20th century
to pursue freedom and opportunity.
Today's immigrants are no different.
Given the importance of today's im-
migrants to our economic future, cel-
ebrating immigrant entrepreneurs, like

Ben-Gal and Nemirovsky, is something
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Steve Tobocman is managing partner at New

Solutions Group, LLC. He spearheaded the

Global Detroit Study for the New Economy

Initiative and Detroit Regional Chamber, look-

ing at how Southeastern Michigan can utilze

foreign-born talent and global connections to
expand the economy.

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