This paper provides evidence that students in the mid-1990s learned to use the Internet at university and then continued use after graduation, highlighting a micro-level role for institutions in diffusion. In particular, it shows that university attendance in the mid-1990s had a larger effect on...

We examine geographic concentration, agglomeration, and co-location of university research and industrial R&D in three technological areas: medical imaging, neural networks, and signal processing. Using data on scientific publications and patents as indicators of university research and...