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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Here be startups: exploring a young digital cluster in inner East London

Nathan, Max; Vandore, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is …

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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Cultural diversity, cities and innovation: firm effects or city effects?

Lee, Neil - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Growing cultural diversity is seen as important for innovation. Research has focused on two potential mechanisms: a … innovation, nor do migrant-run firms in diverse cities appear particularly innovative. But urban context does matter and firms in …

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CEO incentive contracts in China: why does city location matter?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We show that city and provincial policy experiments help explain this variance. We examine the role of two policy experiments: the use of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to attract...

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