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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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Chapter 6. Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 349-404). 2015
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data … and industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work links to innovation, and we discuss factors that help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025313
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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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A research agenda for entrepreneurship and innovation
Audretsch, David B. (ed.); Lehmann, Erik (ed.);  … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039130
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Handbook of entrepreneurship research : an interdisciplinary survey and introduction
Acs, Zoltán J. (ed.); Audretsch, David B. (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001731065
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A research agenda for entrepreneurship and innovation
Audretsch, David B. (ed.); Lehmann, Erik (ed.);  … - 2019
entrepreneurship and innovation: the role of entrepreneurial universities / Maribel Guerrero and David Urbano -- 9. Corporate … governance and innovation / Hezun Li, Timurs Umans and Siri Terjesen -- 10. Research opportunities considering student … talking about and seeing entrepreneurship and innovation differently / Friederike Welter -- 13. Artificial intelligence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294417
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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups
Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020
reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241073
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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
Kominers, Scott Duke; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765037
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Clusters of entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630739