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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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Financing innovation

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - 2014

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 …

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Winner takes all? : tech clusters, population centers, and the spatial transformation of U.S. invention

Chattergoon, B.; Kerr, William R. - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 51 (2022) 2, pp. 1-8

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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

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

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