Harvard economist **Rebecca Diamond** and her co-authors found that **immigrants contribute to roughly one-third of total U.S. innovation output**, as measured by **patents filed** — **including both the patents they produce directly and those they indirectly enable by working with native-born Americans.**

Let’s unpack that 👇

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### 🔍 **1. What the research means**

* **Immigrants themselves** often account for a large share of patents (especially in science, tech, and engineering fields).

* **But innovation is collaborative** — many patents have teams with both immigrant and native-born inventors.

* When you include those “spillover” effects (immigrants boosting innovation among native-born colleagues), their **total contribution rises to about one-third of all U.S. patents.**

So it’s not just that immigrants invent a lot on their own — they also **raise the productivity and creativity** of the Americans they work with.

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### 🌍 **2. Where these immigrant innovators come from**

Based on U.S. patent data and studies by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the most common countries of origin are:

| Rank | Country of Birth | Share of Immigrant Inventors (Approx.) | Notable Sectors |

| ---- | ------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ |

| 1 | 🇨🇳 **China** | ~20–25% | Semiconductors, AI, biotech |

| 2 | 🇮🇳 **India** | ~15–20% | Software, IT, pharmaceuticals |

| 3 | 🇨🇦 **Canada** | ~5–7% | Engineering, energy |

| 4 | 🇩🇪 **Germany** | ~5% | Automotive, chemistry |

| 5 | 🇰🇷 **South Korea** | ~4% | Electronics, materials |

| 6 | 🇬🇧 **United Kingdom** | ~3% | Finance tech, life sciences |

| 7 | 🇷🇺 **Russia / ex-USSR** | ~3% | Physics, aerospace |

| 8 | 🇮🇷 **Iran** | ~2% | Engineering, materials science |

| 9 | 🇮🇱 **Israel** | ~2% | Cybersecurity, medical devices |

| 10 | 🇹🇼 **Taiwan** | ~2% | Microchips, hardware |

Together, China and India alone account for **about 40% of all immigrant inventors** in the U.S. today.

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### 🧠 **3. Broader takeaway**

The U.S. innovation engine — especially in Silicon Valley and research universities — depends heavily on immigrant scientists and engineers.

* Over **50% of U.S. startups valued over $1B** have at least one immigrant founder.

* In certain sectors (like AI and semiconductors), **immigrants produce more than half of all patents.**

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Would you like me to show which **U.S. states or metro areas** benefit most from immigrant-driven innovation (e.g., California, Massachusetts, Texas)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784591&forum_id=2:#49336020)

sorry pouring my slushie isn't the source of American innovation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784591&forum_id=2:#49336035)

'indirectly enabling' patents = thousands of H1B turds doing grunt work in some lab where they should not even be employed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784591&forum_id=2:#49336036)

there is and has been a conspiracy to exclude whites from top schools and STEM jobs. Jews are over admitted to Ivies by 100000%, while whites in STEM are systematically laid off in the tens of thousands and replaced by scab Indians/Asians. these problems have compounded for several generations.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784591&forum_id=2:#49336048)

Birdshits got into Ivies using legacy and stupid sports admits for decades but u still whine u are DISCRIMINATED AGIANST, rofl if it was pure merit it wld be 50% azn, 30% jew u faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784591&forum_id=2:#49338674)