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 …

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …

applied to the case of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners, a revolutionary innovation in medical technology. The econometric … from innovation is used primarily to compute a social rate of return to R&D, to explore the interrelation between … innovation and diffusion, and to trace the time profile of benefits and costs, the latter suggesting the possible occurance of …

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

Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs …