This paper presents evidence on the spatial distribution and effects of urban agglomeration on firm innovation. It uses … a unique dataset that consistently defines city boundaries and identifies firms' innovation-related activities across 25 … developing countries in Asia. We find firm innovation to be highly concentrated at the city level. We also find substantial gains …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …