This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and
innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation …

Since the introduction of the related variety concept in 2007, a number of studies have been
undertaken to analyse its effect on economic development. Our review of 21 studies makes …

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes
a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the …

Regional economic divergence has become a threat to economic progress, social cohesion
and political stability in Europe. Market processes and policies that are supposed to spread …

Recently, research on government intervention and innovation performance has emerged in
large numbers. However, the endogenous problems arising from the indirect investigations …

Under the dual pressures of slowing economic growth and increasing environmental
pollution in China, there is no doubt that relying on innovation to promote pollution reduction …

The city as innovation machine. Regional Studies. This paper puts cities and urban regions
at the very centre of the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. It combines the …

The returns to face-to-face interactions are of central importance to understanding the
determinants of agglomeration. However, the existing literature studying patterns of …

Urban–rural differences in partisan political loyalty are as familiar in the United States as
they are in other countries. In this paper, we examine Gallup survey data from the early …

We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local
determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms …