Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …

organization of production in Canada, Mexico, or the United States. In Mexico, closer economic ties with the United States appear … integration on industry location in Canada and the United States seem to have been much weaker. On exception to this finding is U …

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

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 …

This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …

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 …

We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform …

Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation …The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in …