01 · Research
Studies, reviews & frameworks.
Studies, research articles, reviews, frameworks and academic work on how immigrants start, run and grow businesses.
- 2026StudyMapping the first year: how immigrant founders find supportImmigrant Entrepreneur Lab · IEL Working Paper SeriesA qualitative study that follows newly arrived founders through their first twelve months, tracing which advice, networks and institutions they actually turn to — and which they never find.
- 2026ReviewMixed embeddedness, revisited: a review of two decades of researchImmigrant Entrepreneur Lab · IEL Working Paper SeriesA structured review of how the mixed-embeddedness framework has been applied, extended and challenged since the early 2000s — and what it still misses.
- 2026FrameworkA practical framework for inclusive business adviceImmigrant Entrepreneur Lab · Immigrant Entrepreneur LabSix design principles for advisory services that work for founders who are new to a country, its language and its institutions.
- 2025Research articleCredentials, language and the choice to start a businessImmigrant Entrepreneur Lab · IEL Working Paper SeriesHow barriers to recognized qualifications and professional-level language shape whether — and what kind of — businesses immigrants start.
- 2025Working paperTransnational ventures: businesses that live in two countriesImmigrant Entrepreneur Lab · IEL Working Paper SeriesA look at founders who build companies across their origin and destination countries, and what that means for support and policy.