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 …

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs …

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …

This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

are immigrants. We utilize the Annual Business Survey to quantify the greater rates of patenting and innovation in … immigrant-founded firms. This higher propensity towards innovation is only partly explained by differences in education levels …