Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

William R. Kerr
Published Date
Copyright 2010
DOI 10.1016/j.jue.2009.09.006
Book: Cities and Entrepreneurship
Book organizers: Edward L. Glaeser, Stuart S. Rosenthal & William C. Strange
PUBLISHER: Journal of Urban Economics 67 (1)

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