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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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Global collaborative patents

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005

This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to...

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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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The Industry R&D Survey – Patent Database Link Project

Kerr, William R.; Fu, Shihe - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2006

the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey …&D platform can be linked to the operating performances of each firm’s establishments, further facilitating innovation …

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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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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...

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The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007

India. Growth in ethnic innovation is concentrated in high-tech sectors; the institutional and geographic dimensions are …

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Innovation network

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

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