Local Diversity, Human Creativity, and Technological Innovation

By Pierre Desrochers. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Opening up the ‘Jacobs Spillovers’ black box: local diversity, creativity and the processes underlying new combinations (2011, background): “Prominent economic analysts going back at least to Adam Smith have taken note of the combinatory nature of innovation (Desrochers, 2001).”
Cities and Industrial Symbiosis: Some Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications (2001, background): “See the work of Desrochers (2001) for a more detailed critique.”
Innovation, Human Capital, and Creativity (2010, background): “Desrochers (2001) noted the lack of attention to the diversity and creativity in city growth.”
Cities and the Creative Class (2003, background): “As Jacobs saw it, great cities are places where people from virtually any background are welcome to turn their energy and ideas into innovations and wealth (Jacobs, 1961, 1969, 1984; see also Andersson, 1985, pp. 5–20; Desrochers, 2001).”
Creativity, Connections and Innovation: A Study of Linkages in the Montréal Region (2006, background): “In other words, innovation is a process of creating new, profitable products and ideas by incorporating observations or insights taken from elsewhere into the work one had previously been doing (Desrochers, 2001, page 378).”
Density and Creativity in U.S. Regions (2008, background): “... as the process by which new work is added to old divisions of labor, thus creating new products, processes,orideas,andalsonewdivisionsoflabor.Feldman (2000, 373) adds that “innovation is the novel application of economically valuable knowledge.” In other words, innovation is a process of creatin”