In the years since the Great Recession, social scientists have anticipated that economic
recovery in the United States, characterized by gains in employment and median household …

We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which
are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters …

Practical solutions for improving higher education opportunities for disadvantaged students
Too many disadvantaged college students in America do not complete their coursework or …

Процессы цифровизации и автоматизации предоставляют колоссальные возможности
для развития. При этом они сопровождаются социальными рисками, главный из …

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred
by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some …

This paper assesses the mutating role of the state in today's flourishing technology hubs in
major cities and metropolitan areas across the globe through a comparative lens …

Slow growth over the last decade has prompted policy attention towards increasing R&D
spending, often via the tax system. We examine the impact of R&D on firm performance, both …

This paper considers the appropriate spatial scale for industrial policy. Should policy focus
on particular places, targeting clusters of firms that are spatially concentrated? Or should it …

US invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the
1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local …

The globalization of the world economy, the growing boundary-less nature of the workforce,
and the reduction in immigration and emigration barriers to the movement of people have …