Relatedness and Technological Change in Cities: The rise and fall of technological knowledge in U.S. metropolitan areas from 1981 to 2010

Ron Boschma (), Pierre-Alexandre Balland and Dieter Kogler

No 1316, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: This paper investigates by means of USPTO patent data whether technological relatedness was a crucial driving force behind technological change in 366 U.S. cities from 1981 to 2010. Based on a three-way fixed effects model, we find that the entry probability of a new technology in a city increases by 30 percent if the level of relatedness with existing technologies in the city increases by 10 percent, while the exit probability of an existing technology decreases by 8 percent.

Keywords: relatedness; technological change; urban diversification; U.S. cities; technology space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 L65 O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2013-09, Revised 2013-09
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