Nathan, M;
(2015)
Same difference? Minority ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK.
Journal of Economic Geography
, 15
(1)
pp. 129-168.
10.1093/jeg/lbu006.
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Abstract
Minority ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation, especially in high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley. Do ‘ethnicity–innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? Ethnicity could influence innovation via production complementarities from diverse inventor communities, co-ethnic network externalities or individual ‘stars’. I explore these issues using new UK patents microdata and a novel name-classification system. UK minority ethnic inventors are spatially concentrated, as in the USA, but have different characteristics reflecting UK-specific geography and history. I find that the diversity of inventor communities helps raise individual patenting, with suggestive influence of East Asian-origin stars. Majority inventors may benefit from multiplier effects.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Same difference? Minority ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jeg/lbu006 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbu006 |
| Additional information: | The Author (2014). Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086276 |
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