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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

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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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005

This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to...

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014

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 …

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2013

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting...

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The Industry R&D Survey – Patent Database Link Project

Kerr, William R.; Fu, Shihe - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2006

the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey …&D platform can be linked to the operating performances of each firm’s establishments, further facilitating innovation …

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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …

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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...

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The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007

India. Growth in ethnic innovation is concentrated in high-tech sectors; the institutional and geographic dimensions are …

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Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms

Llanes, Gastón; Elejalde, Ramiro de - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two novel aspects of the model are: (1) participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in...

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When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge

Baldwin, Carliss Y. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2010

This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the...

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