期刊
JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS
卷 67, 期 1, 页码 46-60出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2009.09.006
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Agglomeration; Clusters; Entrepreneurship; Invention; Mobility; Reallocation; R&D; Patents; Scientists; Engineers; Immigration
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top 1% of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to peer locations that do not experience breakthrough inventions. This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies that depend heavily on immigrant inventors. The results qualitatively confirm the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton [Duranton, G., 2007. Urban evolutions: The fast. the slow, and the still. American Economic Review 97, 197-221]. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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