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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012

framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multiproduct firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …

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Growth through heterogeneous innovations

Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2013

framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148199

Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Agglomeration and innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - 2015

This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss 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 …

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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Innovation, reallocation and growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148193

Global collaborative patents

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2017

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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INNOVATION, REALLOCATION AND GROWTH

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Can't we all be more like Scandinavians? : asymmetric growth and institutions in an interdependent world

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

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Labor regulations and European venture capital

Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - 2013

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance...

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