Superlinear scaling for innovation in cities

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Arbesman, Samuel ^a   Kleinberg, Jon M ^b   Strogatz, Steven H ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITIES; NETWORK MODELS; POPULATION SIZES; SUPERLINEAR; THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS; URBAN POPULATIONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 60949083291     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.016115     Document Type: Article

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