This paper examines impact of employment agglomeration in fifteen U.S. manufacturing industries on their innovation … to have negative impacts on innovation in U.S. manufacturing industries. Two agglomeration proxies - Gini index and … Ellison-Glaeser index have a negative influence on U.S. patented innovation for the study period. This result implies that the …

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation offers a unique look at the importance of geographic proximity to the innovative … activity of high-tech small firms. The book explores the concentration of innovation across metropolitan areas in the United … States during the 1990s, by introducing a novel measure of small-firm innovation based on the U.S. Small Business Innovation …