Creative cities are seen as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. Yet, beyond case … studies of a few high-profile cities, there is little empirical evidence on the link between local creative industries … exclusive to creative industries firms and seems to be largely due to firms in medium sized, rather than large, cities. The …

One of the key benefits of cities is that they allow the exchange of knowledge and information between economic actors … link between cities and innovation. …

distribution and the evolution of knowledge complexity across U.S. cities from 1975 to 2004. We build on the 2-mode structural … technological structure of 366 MSAs with the 2-mode network that connects cities to the 438 primary (USPTO) technology classes in … which they have Relative Technological Advantage (RTA). The complexity of the knowledge structure of cities is based on the …

We study the resilience of cities by analyzing their relative capacity to sustain the production of technological … from 1975 to 2002, we analyze the vulnerability and response of cities to technological crises. We define episodes of … duration of technological crises vary considerably across American cities. We test whether the technological knowledge bases of …