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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Has ICT polarized skill demand?: evidence from eleven countries over 25 Years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

OECD labor markets have become more “polarized” with employment in the middle of the skill distribution falling relative to the top and (in recent years) also the bottom of the skill distribution. We test the hypothesis of Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) that this is partly due to...

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Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st Century evidence

Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skilldistribution in recent decades. There have been sharp increases in wage inequality across theOECD, beginning with the US and UK at the end of the 1970s. A good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to...

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

knowledge or better access to international markets). These channels may be balanced by internal downsides (lower trust) and … information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

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Trapped factors and China’s impact on global growth

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional “trapped factor” effect. Starting …

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Here be startups: exploring a young digital cluster in inner East London

Nathan, Max; Vandore, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is …

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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Cultural diversity, cities and innovation: firm effects or city effects?

Lee, Neil - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Growing cultural diversity is seen as important for innovation. Research has focused on two potential mechanisms: a … firm effect, with diversity at the firm level improving knowledge sourcing or ideas generation, and a city effect, where … innovation, nor do migrant-run firms in diverse cities appear particularly innovative. But urban context does matter and firms in …

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