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Silicon Valley is the canonical example of economic agglomeration. The knowledge of how to build, program, and operate computer components was a shared, scarce resource in the early 1960’s. Programmers and technicians often moved between companies, transferring best practices. This collaboration caused companies to release products with complementa... See more
Xing Quan Zhang • The Economic Role of Cities
Universities and start-up creation by Ph.D. graduates: the role of scientific and social capital of academic laboratories - The Journal of Technology Transfer
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built space volumes per capita multiplied by socioeconomic outputs per capita are conserved across city sizes,
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
All in all, technology doesn’t make jobs irrelevant—far from it, as suggested by the uninterrupted growth of proximity services in expanding urban areas.
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
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For entrepreneurs in today’s environment, talent, not capital, is the limiting factor in company building. Finding and recruiting talent is also the core task of venture capital investing, building a research lab, or managing a university.
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
cooperation at scale. The state, business, and civil society all have roles to play in creating the
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
To hold large volumes of knowledge and knowhow, therefore, we need large networks of people. Yet the relationship between the size of a network and the volume of knowledge and knowhow that it can hold not only makes the accumulation of knowledge and knowhow difficult but also implies that moving or copying the knowledge and knowhow embodied in a la
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