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 …

This paper estimates the social returns to investments in innovation. The disparate spillovers associated with … innovation, including imitation, business stealing, and intertemporal spillovers, have made calculations of the social returns … under conservative assumptions, innovation efforts produce social benefits that are many multiples of the investment costs …

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

burden mechanism suggests that the nature of innovation is changing, with negative implications for long-run economic growth …

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

"In advanced economies like the United States, innovation has long been recognized as a central force for increasing … socioeconomic prosperity and improving human health. Today, U.S. government policy seeks to promote innovation through a suite of … Business Innovation Research program to the National Science Foundation. This book surveys key dimensions of innovation policy …

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 …