Agglomeration and Innovation

Gerald Carlino and William Kerr

No 20367, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss important findings from the literature about why this is so. We highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).

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Date: 2014-08
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Published as Gerald Carlino, William R. Kerr, Chapter 6 - Agglomeration and Innovation, Editor(s): Gilles Duranton, J. Vernon Henderson, William C. Strange, Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Elsevier, Volume 5, 2015, Pages 349-404, ISSN 1574-0080, ISBN 9780444595331, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-59517-1.00006-4.

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