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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

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

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

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

diverse cities helping firms innovate. This paper uses a dataset of over 2,000 UK SMEs to test between these two. Controlling …

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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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