The Locational Dynamics of the U.S. Biotech Industry: Knowledge Externalities and the Anchor Hypothesis

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The Role of Universities in Regional Development: Conceptual Models and Policy Institutions in the UK, Sweden and Austria (2015, background): “Other studies suggest that the co-presence of specific sectors such as biotechnology or computing (Feldman, 2003; Lawton Smith & Bagchi-Sen, 2012), firm R&D intensity and absorptive capacity (Agrawal & Cockburn, 2003) influences HEIs’ abilities to commercialize their research.”
Desperately Seeking Spillovers?: Increasing Returns, Industrial Organization and the Location of New Entrants in Geographic and Technological Space (2007, unknown): “One possible explanation for this result is found in the recent agglomeration research on the so-called anchor tenant hypotheses (Feldman, 2003; Agrawal and Cockburn, 2003), which suggests that the presence of a large, local R&D-intensive incumbent may be important to both creating and capturing kno”
The role of clustering in the growth of new technology-based firms (2010, background): “Gimeno et al. (2005) study the international expansion of large telecommunications firms with few competitors.”
Evolutionary entrepreneurial ecosystems: a research pathway (2021, background): “Large, often anchor, firms have been shown to profoundly affect the evolution of an EE (Buenstorf & Klepper, 2009; Feldman, 2003; Giblin & Ryan, 2012; Ryan et al., 2020).”