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Relatedness and technological change in cities: the rise and fall of technological knowledge in US metropolitan areas from 1981 to 2010

Boschma, Ron LU ; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre and Kogler, Dieter Franz (2015) In Industrial and Corporate Change 24(1). p.223-250
Abstract
This article investigates by means of US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent data whether technological relatedness at the city level was a crucial driving force behind technological change in 366 US cities from 1981 to 2010. Based on a three-way fixed-effects model, we find that the entry probability of a new technology in a city increases by 30% if the level of relatedness with existing technologies in the city increases by 10%, while the exit probability of an existing technology decreases by 8%.
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Industrial and Corporate Change
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24
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223 - 250
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0960-6491
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10.1093/icc/dtu012
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