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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754933
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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754963
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Agglomeration and innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014
research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions … between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and they discuss factors that help sustain these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930297
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The Industry R&D Survey – Patent Database Link Project
Kerr, William R.; Fu, Shihe - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2006
the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey …&D platform can be linked to the operating performances of each firm’s establishments, further facilitating innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237014
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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237019
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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations
Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multiproduct firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553118
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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...
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The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007
India. Growth in ethnic innovation is concentrated in high-tech sectors; the institutional and geographic dimensions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818698
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Growth through heterogeneous innovations
Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Suomen Pankki - 2013
framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818983
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Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations
Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2010
framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674319