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Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

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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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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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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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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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 Network

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016

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 …

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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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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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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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Global Talent Flows

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Caglar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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