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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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Chapter 6. Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 349-404). 2015

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data … and industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work links to innovation, and we discuss factors that help …

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Agglomeration and innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions … between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and they discuss factors that help sustain these …

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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …

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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kominers, Scott Duke; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2010

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Clusters of entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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Winner takes all? : tech clusters, population centers, and the spatial transformation of U.S. invention

Chattergoon, B.; Kerr, William R. - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 51 (2022) 2, pp. 1-8

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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...

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