Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

By William R. Kerr. 2009

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The impact of cultural diversity on firm innovation: evidence from Dutch micro-data (2013, unknown): “Thus, one branch of this literature analyses the impact of foreign entrepreneurs, students and inventors on innovation (Stuen et al. 2012; Kerr, 2010; Kerr and Lincoln, 2010; Hunt and Gauthier-Loiselle, 2008; Lobo and Strumsky, 2008; Zucker and Darby, 2007; and Faggian and McCann, 2006).”
The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries (2013, unknown): “Along similar lines, Kerr (2010b) links the presence of co-ethnic inventor groups to the spread of ‘ breakthrough technologies ’ in US cities.”
Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012 (2020, unknown): “For example, (Hunt, 2011; Hunt and Gauthier-Loiselle, 2010; Kerr et al., 2015a; 2015b; Kerr, 2010; Kerr and Lincoln 2010; Lofstrom 2011; Peri et al., 2015), and Breschi et al. (2017).”
Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship (2009, unknown): “Kerr (2010) and Dahl and Sorenson (2010) each shed light here.”
Coagglomeration, Clusters, and the Scale and Composition of Cities (2014, background): “Ellison, Glaeser, and Kerr ð2010Þ take the additional step of using evidence of coagglomeration to evaluate the relative importance across industries of different potential sources of agglomeration economies.”
Agglomeration and Innovation (2014, unknown): “Kerr and Kominers (2014) use this insight to build a model of clusters comprising small, overlapping regions.”
The innovative performance of firms in heterogeneous environments: the interplay between external knowledge and internal absorptive capacities (2018, background): “Areas experiencing inflows of highly qualified individuals benefit from the development of an enabling environment for innovation and growth (Carlino et al., 2007; Glaeser et al., 2010; Kerr, 2010).”
Co-invention networks and inventive productivity in US cities (2016, background): “Non-local sources f knowledge have been found to provide a significant contribution o the diffusion of ideas and to patenting growth at the local level Agrawal et al., 2008, 2010; Kerr, 2010).”
Growing through Cities in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “A more reasonable path forward, following Ellison, Glaeser, and Kerr (2010), is to consider several classes of agglomeration sources in the same approach.”
Immigration and Innovation in European Regions (2011, background): “They contribute to the population growth of cities, which reinforces agglomeration – with positive benefits for innovation and growth (e.g. Audretch, 1998; Gordon and McCann, 2005; Kerr, 2010).”