Smith, Ian; Acs, Zoltan J.; FitzRoy, Felix R. - In: The Annals of Regional Science 36 (2002) 3, pp. 373-386
This paper uses data from high technology industry clusters in U.S. cities to establish a strong positive relationship between city, industry cluster (and university) R&D, and subsequent employment in the same industry cluster and city. Perhaps surprisingly, in view of recent results that...