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Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia / Liming Chen.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Liming.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agglomeration Economies.
- Firm Innovation.
- Innovation.
- Knowledge Spillovers.
- Private Sector Development.
- Private Sector Economics.
- Research and Development.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Urban Development.
- Urban Economic Development.
- Local Subjects:
- Agglomeration Economies.
- Firm Innovation.
- Innovation.
- Knowledge Spillovers.
- Private Sector Development.
- Private Sector Economics.
- Research and Development.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Urban Development.
- Urban Economic Development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (41 pages)
- Other Title:
- Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper examines the relationship between urban agglomeration and firm innovation using a recently developed dataset that consistently measures city boundaries across Asia together with geo-referenced firm-level data. It finds that the spatial distribution of innovation by firms is highly concentrated within countries. Further, firms in larger cities have substantially higher propensities to introduce product and process innovations and undertake R and D activities, a result that holds for subgroups of countries and even when the largest cities are excluded from the analysis. Finally, the presence of high quality universities and highly ranked engineering departments in cities is positively associated with firm innovation, lending support to the idea that the accumulation of human capital locally is a key channel through which urban agglomeration affects innovation.
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