Inevitable disclosure doctrine (IDD) refers to a legal doctrine where an employer can claim, without the need for proof or evidence, misappropriation of trade secrets to seek an injunction against an employee. Based on entrepreneurial spawning literature, for employees seeking to start their ventures, IDD rejection by state courts could therefore be a potential catalyst to entrepreneurial activity. In a sample of neighbor-counties across state borders with and without IDD rejection, the two-way fixed-effects difference-in-differences estimates show positive effects for county-level entrepreneurial outcomes. However, when applying more recently developed methods for testing staggered implementation, we find no support for county-level entrepreneurial outcomes across multiple specifications and heterogeneities. The findings have implications for the limited efficacy of IDD rejection on regional entrepreneurial activity.

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可以的话来抓我？美国的交错不可避免披露原则 (IDD) 拒绝和创业活动

不可避免的披露原则 (IDD) 是指雇主可以在不需要证据或证据的情况下声称盗用商业秘密以寻求对雇员的禁令的法律原则。根据创业产卵文献，对于寻求创业的员工来说，州法院拒绝 IDD 因此可能成为创业活动的潜在催化剂。在有和没有 IDD 拒绝的跨州邻县样本中，双向固定效应差分估计显示对县级创业成果有积极影响。然而，当应用最近开发的测试交错实施的方法时，我们发现不支持跨多个规范和异质性的县级创业成果。