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Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Kerr, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

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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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

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 Ludwig; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

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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Innovation and sectoral employment: A trade-off between compensation mechanisms

Ebersberger, Bernd; Pyka, Andreas - 1999

employment despite of innovation from employment via innovation. In the context of new innovation economics we model an …

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Product Innovation and Population Dynamics in the German Insurance Market

Menhart, Michael; Pyka, Andreas; Ebersberger, Bernd; … - 2003

Empirical research in organizational ecology has mainly focused on analyzing founding and mortality rates using life history data of the organizations. We try to extend this approach in our study in a number of ways. In contrast to most empirical studies in organizational ecology, we chose a...

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Why do firms co-operate for innovation? : A comparison of Austrian and Finnish CIS 3 results

Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Pyka, Andreas - 2004

of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). Descriptive statistics indicate that the rate of innovators is quite similar … deeper rooted in the underlying innovation systems than the existing literature may assume. …

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A Neo-Schumpeterian approach towards public sector economics

Hanusch, Horst; Pyka, Andreas; Wackermann, Florian - 2009

Innovation is the major driver of economic growth and development. To analyze innovation processes the restriction of a … framework suited to the analysis of innovation towards the industrial sphere of an economy is not sufficient because of the … important co-evolutionary dimensions of innovation. Instead, a comprehensive economic theoretical approach is needed which …

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Simulating knowledge-generation and -distribution processes in innovation collaborations and networks

Pyka, Andreas (contributor); Gilbert, G. Nigel (contributor) - 2006

An agent-based simulation model representing a theory of the dynamic processes involved in innovation in modern …. The aim of the simulation exercises is to show that the artificial innovation networks show certain characteristics they … share with innovation networks in knowledge intensive industries and which are difficult to be integrated in traditional …

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