Agrawal, Ajay; Kapur, Devesh; McHale, John - In: Journal of Urban Economics 64 (2008) 2, pp. 258-269
We examine how the spatial and social proximity of inventors affects access to knowledge, focusing especially on how the two forms of proximity interact. Employing patent citation data and using same-MSA and co-ethnicity as proxies for spatial and social proximity, respectively, we estimate a...