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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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Agglomeration and innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

Draft chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vols. 5A and 5B This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. They then discuss how...

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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough …

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How do entrepreneurs in clusters contribute to economic growth?

Wennberg, Karl; Lindqvist, Göran - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007

within regional clusters with those located outside of clusters.We use matched employee-employer databases to investigate all … support for basing economic policies on clusters. …

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Open Innovation Clusters: The Case of Cova da Beira Region (Portugal)

Leitão, João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

. Furthermore, it aims to present a normative model for networking knowledge clusters, that is, traditional clusters that are … emergent clusters that include Bioscience, Biotechnology, Multimedia, Tourism, Health, and Knowledge. In this paper, the basic … framework about clusters was expanded, taking as reference the studies of Porter (1985, 1990, 1998, 2005), Feldman (1994 …

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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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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2009

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012

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The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms

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