The research agendas of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global value chains
(GVCs) have developed more or less independently from each other, with little interaction so …

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately
in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United States account for 23% of the …

Science is increasingly defined by multidimensional collaborative networks. Despite the
unprecedented growth of scientific collaboration around the globe–the collaborative turn …

This article examines the role of work at the cutting of technological change—frontier work—
as a driver of prosperity and spatial income inequality. Using new methods and data, we …

Evolutionary economic geography theory stresses the importance of time and history to
explain the evolution of regional economies. Yet, consistent empirical treatment of …

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing
new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that …

Although technological change is widely credited as driving the last 200 years of economic
growth, its role in shaping patterns of inequality remains under-explored. Drawing parallels …

How important is access to patent documents for subsequent innovation? We examine the
expansion of the USPTO Patent Library system after 1975. Patent libraries provided access …

Using data over more than a century, we show that shifts in the location of manufacturing
industries are a domestic reflection of what the international trade literature refers to as the …

I provide a primer on six recent large‐scale historical patent data sets for use in innovation
research. I discuss how each data set is constructed, the types of patent information included …