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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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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