Innovation has become a key driver of economic growth, benefitting from knowledge
production and technological advancements. Existing literature on the geography of …

The transition from an industrial economy to an innovation economy poses two critical
questions for the manufacturing sector in advanced countries. First, given the diffusion of …

Only a handful of studies on innovation empirically analyze the links between firm innovation
and the sources of that innovative activity of sources of innovation on types of innovation. To …

This paper estimates the effect of a skilled visa program that permits foreign-born graduates
from Australian universities the right to temporarily live and work in Australia post-graduation …

Why some straight men have sex with other men Why do some straight men in rural America
have sex with other men? In Still Straight, Tony Silva convincingly argues that these men …

Objective Creative class theory explains the positive relationship between the arts and
commercial innovation as the mutual attraction of artists and other creative workers by an …

Most innovation-oriented studies use measures such as patent activity or research
expenditures, likely ignoring the role of more home-grown upgrades or opportunity …

Heterogeneity of inventiveness across urban, metro-adjacent rural and remote rural counties
is analyzed using a spatial autoregressive negative binomial regression model, taking into …

Due to the low demand for highly educated workers in rural areas, high‐achieving rural
students have been portrayed as having to pick between staying close to home and facing …

Rural economic development strategies increasingly focus on “homegrown” economic
policies, including investing in entrepreneurial development. However, few studies have …