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

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 …

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 …

factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local 'social filter', taking also into … account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter', good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …

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

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 …

Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical … literature by combining in one model R&D, spillovers, and innovation systems approaches. A multiple regression analysis is …