I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on US cancer mortality rates during the … period 2000–2009, by estimating difference-in-differences models using longitudinal (annual) data on ∼60 cancer sites (breast …-adjusted cancer mortality rate during 2000–2009. Drug innovation and imaging innovation are estimated to have reduced the cancer …

explain the phenomenon of geographical clustering of economic activity. Nonetheless, as many studies in these fields point out … chapter 3 the concept of LKS is defined and its importance for the theory of geographical clustering as well as for New Growth … clustering.In chapter 8 the analysis turns to the welfare implications of different types of market mediated knowledge exchanges …