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 …

Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research … to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations … also find that the value attributable to scientific research has dropped, whereas the value attributable to technical …

This paper presents an international comparison of R&D activities in basic and applied research. The commonly-held view … that Japan is not spending much on basic technology development cannot be empirically substantiated from the study of the … technology.The second part of the paper is to show how two countries, one with heavy R&D activities in basic technology (the U …

This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the …

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific … of measures of science rather than technology. Together its results provide a more complete picture of the structure of … basic research flows than was previously available. Basic research flows are high within petrochemicals and drugs and within …

Coe and Helpman(1995) have measured the extent to which technology spills over between industrialized countries through … account two new potential channels of technology transfer: inward FDI and technology sourcing, as proxied by outward FDI. The … empirical results show that outward FDI flows and imports flows are two simultaneous channels through which technology is …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …

About 20 percent of the gross investment expenditures of U.S. manufacturing firms is expenditures on research and … moving average process of order three, while the technology shock process is more nearly permanent: first order …

While there is widespread agreement among economists and management scholars that knowledge spillovers exist and have …; Porter, 1990). In this paper we make use of the geographic distribution of the research activities of major global … and empirical approach allow us to make advances on two dimensions. First, by focusing on spillovers in research …