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 …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during …Under the assumption that there were no pre-dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would … have been parallel trends in mortality in the absence of innovation, the estimates indicate that there were three major …

The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its …

We examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on the longevity of Australians during the period 1995-2003. Due to …

the elasticity of innovation with respect to the expected price of drugs should be at least as great as the elasticity of … innovation with respect to expected market size (disease incidence). I examine the cross-sectional relationship between … pharmaceutical innovation and market size among a set of diseases (different types of cancer) exhibiting substantial exogenous …

higher rates of lab and outpatient innovation had greater declines in the probability of missing work during 1996-2003. This … for initial disability, the inverse relationship between lab innovation and disability changes disappears. This is because … there is a significant inverse relationship between initial health and the extent of laboratory innovation. But due to …