Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia

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 d...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Liming, Hasan, Rana, Jiang, Yi
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES FIRM INNOVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/148381637761830496/Urban-Agglomeration-and-Firm-Innovation-Evidence-from-Developing-Asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36637

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spelling	okr-10986-366372021-12-03T05:10:42Z Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia Chen, Liming Hasan, Rana Jiang, Yi AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES FIRM INNOVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS 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&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. 2021-12-02T21:31:12Z 2021-12-02T21:31:12Z 2021-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/148381637761830496/Urban-Agglomeration-and-Firm-Innovation-Evidence-from-Developing-Asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36637 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9861 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia
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description	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&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.
format	Working Paper
author	Chen, Liming Hasan, Rana Jiang, Yi
author_facet	Chen, Liming Hasan, Rana Jiang, Yi
author_sort	Chen, Liming
title	Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia
title_short	Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia
title_full	Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia
title_fullStr	Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia
title_full_unstemmed	Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia
title_sort	urban agglomeration and firm innovation : evidence from developing asia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/148381637761830496/Urban-Agglomeration-and-Firm-Innovation-Evidence-from-Developing-Asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36637
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Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Developing Asia

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