Biomedical Innovation Clusters

Orion Penner () and Massimo Riccaboni ()
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Orion Penner: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

No 03-2014, Working Papers SWITCH from Competitività, Regole, Mercati (CERM)

Abstract: Tracking the street level location of biomedical publications we reveal clusters of innovative activity within cities. Using the keywords describing the content of the publications we can further track the geographic flow of new ideas, and in turn, devise a measure of innovativity in the biomedical sciences.

Keywords: pharmaceuticals; innovation; biomedical science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 L15 O10 O3 O31 O32 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2014-05
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