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 …

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 …

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

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 …