Migration is among the main factors influencing economic development in the twenty-first century. And while much research has explored the role of migration on economic growth, the role of diaspora for the development of the country-of-origin entrepreneurial ecosystems remains virtually unknown. We advance evidence that the entrepreneurial activity in a country does not depend only on the activities of the current residents but also on the ties that keep them interconnected via its diaspora to global entrepreneurial hubs and on the (intangible) resources that the diaspora makes available to local entrepreneurs. We perform a mixed-method study and provide evidence consistent with the idea that the diaspora stimulates opportunity-driven entrepreneurial activity despite potential conditions of a brain drain, by contributing essential social and human capital to the resources available locally.

移民是影响二十一世纪经济发展的主要因素之一。尽管大量研究探索了移民对经济增长的作用，但侨民对起源国企业家生态系统发展的作用实际上仍是未知的。我们提供的证据表明，一个国家的企业家活动不仅取决于现有居民的活动，还取决于使他们通过侨民与全球创业中心相互联系的纽带，以及侨民可用于提供的（无形）资源当地企业家。我们进行了混合方法研究，并提供了与以下观点一致的证据：散居者尽管存在人才流失的潜在条件，但仍能激发机会驱动的创业活动，