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

Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating
downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include …

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while
Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number …

A 'digital skin'of the city is coming into being. This skin consists of a sensored and metered
urban environment. The urban world is becoming a platform for generating data on the …

This chapter surveys recent literature examining the relationship between environmental
amenities and urban growth. In this survey, we focus on the role of both exogenous …

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers are fundamental inputs
for innovation, the main driver of productivity growth. We identify the long-run effect of STEM …

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| Cohesion, Results-Orientation and Smart Specialisation PHILIP McCANN New Horizons in …

Grand challenges such as climate change, ageing societies and food security feature
prominently on the agenda of policymakers at all scales, from the EU down to local and …

In response to the crisis of 2008 and deep recession that followed, the UK government
assigned key importance to the need to 'spatially rebalance'the economy, to reduce its …

We study how growth of cities determines the growth of nations. Using a spatial equilibrium
model and data on 220 US metropolitan areas from 1964 to 2009, we first estimate the …