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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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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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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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Innovation and wage polarisation in Europe

Croci Angelini, Elisabetta; Farina, Francesco; Pianta, Mario - In: International review of applied economics 23 (2009) 3, pp. 309-325

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Highways and Spatial Development

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2013) 131, pp. 1-6

This Economic Premise examines the link between highways and spatial development. The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project in India—5,846 km of highways linking four major urban hubs—improved the connectivity and market accessibility of districts close to the highway compared to those...

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Innovation and the economy

Michie, Jonathan; Oughton, Christine; Pianta, Mario - 2002

' more generally, and, secondly, to the effects of new technology and innovation. The effects of both globalisation and … results of which, relating in particular to innovation, are reported in this Special Issue of the International Review of … Interdisciplinary Economics , Volume 13.) It is clear from the empirical work reported that the effects of technological innovation have …

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Which industrial policy does Europe need?

Mazzucato, Mariana; Cimoli, Mario; Dosi, Giovanni; … - In: Intereconomics 50 (2015) 3, pp. 120-155

One lesson of the Great Recession has been that countries with higher shares of industry in their GDP seemed to be less affected by the crisis. Consequently, the call for an industrial renaissance has become stronger. Industrial policy has now become a top priority in countries where it was not...

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