Agglomeration and Innovation
By Gerald A. Carlino, William R. Kerr. 2014
408 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss important findings from the literature about why this is so. We highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Adrien Matray
- William R. Kerr
- Sari Pekkala Kerr
- Alexander Oettl
- Alberto Galasso
- Ajay Agrawal
- Isha Rajbhandari
- Kathryn R. Dotzel
In Political Science and International Relations
- Adrien Matray
- Alexander Oettl
- Alberto Galasso
- Isha Rajbhandari
- Kathryn R. Dotzel
- Sari Pekkala Kerr
- Ajay Agrawal
- Tina Yuqiao Xu
Citations in the corpus
- The local innovation spillovers of listed firms (2021, positive): “The success of innovation clusters such as Silicon Valley is often explained by local networks of innovative firms helping to diffuse knowledge across firms.”
- Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, positive): “First, Cassar and Friedman (2009) find in the PSED sample that ESE increases the likelihood of creating an operating business.”
- The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review (2017, background): “Carlino and Kerr (2014) argue that patents may be a poor measure of innovative activity since they represent only an initial step towards innovation and are not necessarily exploited in the region produced (Feldman, 1994).”
- Roads and Innovation (2017, positive): “(1993) and Feldman (1994), the regional innovation literature identifies a number of factors that may increase innovation in a geographic area by affecting the localization of knowledge spillovers.”