The importance of new knowledge in innovative activities of firms and the impact of these activities on economic development of regions have been acknowledged in many studies. In particular, universities and firms that are established on university knowledge, spin-off firms, function as nodes...

This paper provides evidence for the role of conferences in generating visibility for academic work, using a "natural experiment": the last-minute cancellation - due to "Hurricane Isaac" - of the 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting. We assembled a dataset containing...