Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors
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JEL classification:
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEO-2007-01-23 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-INO-2007-01-23 (Innovation)
- NEP-KNM-2007-01-23 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-SOC-2007-01-23 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
- NEP-URE-2007-01-23 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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