The Effect of -High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors.
The high-tech sector is concentrated in a small number of cities. The ten largest clusters in computer science, semiconductors, and biology account for 69 percent, 77 percent, and 59 percent of all US inventors, respectively. Using longitudinal data on 109,846 inventors, I find that geographical agg...
| Publicado en: | American Economic Review Vol. 111; no. 10; pp. 3328 - 3376 |
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