“…Entrepreneurship and Racial/Ethnic Diversity Entrepreneurship-the discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of business opportunities (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000)-is a socially embedded process Cordero, Montiel, Sanz, Severino, 2011;Granovetter, 1985) and largely a local one (Audretsch et al, 2012;Coomes et al, 2013;Karlsson et al, 2021), making localized determinants of entrepreneurship particularly significant (Coomes et al, 2013). Such determinants include regional norms (Perez & Cordero, 2010;Sine et al, 2022;Vedula & Kim, 2018), the presence of entrepreneurial support organizations (Spigel, 2017), and the availability of financial capital (Samila & Sorenson, 2017). An important predictor of regional entrepreneurship is diversity, which increases the local availability and variety of knowledge and perspectives that, in turn, generate entrepreneurial activity (Karlsson et al, 2021).…”