TY  - JOUR
AU  - Chatterji, Aaron
AU  - Glaeser, Edward L
AU  - Kerr, William R
TI  - Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 19013
PY  - 2013
Y2  - May 2013
DO  - 10.3386/w19013
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w19013
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w19013.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Aaron Chatterji
The Fuqua School of Business
Duke University
100 Fuqua Drive, Box 90120
Durham, NC 27708
Tel: 919/660-7903
E-Mail: ronnie@duke.edu

Edward L. Glaeser
Department of Economics
315A Littauer Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-0575
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: eglaeser@harvard.edu

William R. Kerr
Harvard Business School
Rock Center 212
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/496-7021
E-Mail: wkerr@hbs.edu
M1  - published as Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser, William Kerr. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation," in Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors, "Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 14" University of Chicago Press (2014)

M3  - presented at "Innovation Policy and the Economy 2013", April 23, 2013
AB  - This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of entrepreneurial clusters, our understanding of what works and how it works is quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation.
ER  -