Moretti, Enrico; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2014
employers by a state raises the number of star biotech scientists in that state by about 15 percent over a three-year period. A … 22 percent. Most of the gains are due to the relocation of star scientists to adopting states, with limited effect on the … productivity of incumbent scientists already in the state. The gains are concentrated among private sector inventors. We uncover …