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

Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 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. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 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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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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INNOVATION OUTPUT CHOICES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF FIRMS IN THE U.S.

Sanchez, Juana - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2014

This paper uses new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for … the years 2008-2011 to relate the discrete innovation choices made by U.S. companies to features of the company that have … long been considered to be important correlates of innovation. We use multinomial logit to model those choices. Bloch and …

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What Happens When Firms Patent? New Evidence from U.S. Economic Census Data

Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008

In this study, we present novel statistics on the patenting in US manufacturing and new evidence on the question of what happens when firms patent. We do so by creating a comprehensive firm-patent matched dataset that links the NBER patent data (covering the universe of patents) to firm data...

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