This paper presents evidence on the spatial distribution and effects of urban agglomeration on firm innovation. It uses … urban economies of scale in augmenting the knowledge flows that generate innovation. … a unique dataset that consistently defines city boundaries and identifies firms' innovation-related activities across 25 …

Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting … competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …

This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting point comes from the economics … of innovation and technological change. This tradition focused on the innovation production function however it was … aspatial or insensitive to issues involving location and geography. However, empirical results hinted that knowledge production …