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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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Possibility of a Middle Income Trap in China: Assessment in Terms of the Literature on Innovation, Big Business and Inequality

Lee, Keun; Li, Shi - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 9 (2014) 3, pp. 370-397

checkpoints: innovation capability, world-class big businesses, and inequality. Based on these criteria, our conclusions are as …

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Ethnic innovation and US multinational firm activity

Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 59 (2013) 7, pp. 1529-1544

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Agglomeration and innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - 2015

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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and Ricardian trade patterns

Kerr, William R. - In: The World Bank economic review 32 (2018) 1, pp. 163-182

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What Makes Cities More Competitive? Lessons from India

Ghani, Ejaz; o'Connell, Stephen D.; Kerr, William R. - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2014) 132, pp. 1-4

Policy makers in both developed and developing countries want to accelerate spatial development, make cities more competitive, attract new entrepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. These are commendable goals given that city populations in developing countries are expected...

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What makes firms grow in developing countries? An extension of the resource-based theory of firm growth and empirical analysis

Lee, Keun; Temesgen, Tilahun - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 2 (2009) 3, pp. 139-172

This paper examines what makes firms grow using the investment climate survey that was conducted by the World Bank in eight developing countries. We rely on the resource-based theory of the firm that was proposed by Penrose (1959) where firm growth depends on the kinds and amount of the diverse...

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What makes firms grow in developing countries? An extension of the resource-based theory of firm growth and empirical analysis

Lee, Keun; Temesgen, Tilahun - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 2 (2009) 3, pp. 139-172

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U.S. ethnic scientists and foreign direct investment (FDI) placement patterns

Kerr, William R. - In: Proceedings (2006)

William Kerr’s analysis looked at how knowledge is transferred across countries through ethnic research communities. He finds that the ethnic composition of inventors in a company affects where a firm decides to invest. The idea is that if a company has a core set of researchers from a...

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Possibility of a middle income trap in China : assessment in terms of the literture on innovation, big business and inequality

Lee, Keun; Li, Shi - In: Frontiers of economics in China : selected publications … 9 (2014) 3, pp. 370-397

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