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REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS
Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 571-599Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0462(00)00074-0
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spillovers; agglomeration; GIS
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Most research on economic geography focuses on large geographic areas, such as nations and states. I use a geographic information system and a firm-level dataset to explore agglomeration and spillovers at the firm level over discrete distances. I calculate the distance between each film-pair to explore co-location, and use these calculations to devise a test of spillovers: is participation in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which provides R&D grants to small firms, a function of whether nearby firms win SBIR grants? I find that the number of other SBIR firms within a fraction of a mile predicts whether a firm wins awards, even controlling for regional, firm, and industry characteristics. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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