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Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
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Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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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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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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agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …
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Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital … for innovation programs strengthened the relationship between firms' historical innovative efficiency and subsequent … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …
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We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
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to fostering innovation …
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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