According to social scientists such as Richard Florida and Ronald Inglehart, the structural changes that accompany post-industrialization not only change the industrial and occupational structures of post-industrial regions. They also affect the value structure so that creativity, quality of...

We exploit exogenous variation arising from the historical rollout of the Swedish railroad network across municipalities to identify the impacts of lowered interaction costs on innovative activity. A network connection led to a surge in local innovation due to an increased entry, productivity,...