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Biomedical Innovation Clusters

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  • Orion Penner

    (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

  • Massimo Riccaboni

    (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies and Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, K.U. Leuven)

Abstract

Tracking the street level location of biomedical publications we reveal clusters of innovative activity within cities. Using the keywords describing the content of the publications we can further track the geographic flow of new ideas, and in turn, devise a measure of innovativity in the biomedical sciences.

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  • Orion Penner & Massimo Riccaboni, 2014. "Biomedical Innovation Clusters," Working Papers SWITCH 03-2014, Competitività, Regole, Mercati (CERM).
    • Handle: RePEc:ern:switch:03-2014
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    Keywords

    pharmaceuticals; innovation; biomedical science;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
    • L15 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Information and Product Quality
    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation

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