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The origins of tech clusters

William Kerr [1] interviewed by Tim Phillips [2], 31 January 2020

Why are cities so keen to create their own technology clusters, and why is it so difficult? Bill Kerr of Harvard Business School tells Tim Phillips what economists know (and don't know) about where tech clusters come from

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Topics:  Labour markets [9] Productivity and Innovation [10]

Tags:  competition [11], clusters [12], networks [13], agglomeration [14], localisation economies [15], innovation [16], Big Tech [17]

Source URL: https://voxeu.org/vox-talks/origins-tech-clusters?qt-quicktabs_cepr_policy_research=0

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[1] https://voxeu.org/user/220133
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/250023
[3] itpc://www.voxeu.org/rss.php?q=itunes_podcast
[4] https://voxeu.org/article/automation-and-jobs-when-technology-boosts-employment
[5] https://voxeu.org/article/high-skilled-immigration-and-growing-concentration-us-innovation
[6] https://voxeu.org/article/clustering-does-not-make-firms-more-resilient
[7] https://voxeu.org/article/how-cluster-policies-foster-inter-firm-networks-japanese-evidence
[8] https://voxeu.org/article/natural-clusters-policies-promoting-agglomeration-are-unnecessary
[9] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/labour-markets
[10] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/productivity-and-innovation
[11] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/101
[12] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/949
[13] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/2283
[14] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1007
[15] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1008
[16] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/513
[17] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/10429