What explains the quantity and quality of local inventive activity?

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages 65-123

  Carlino, Gerald ^a   Hunt, Robert ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

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EID: 69649087354     PISSN: 15287084     EISSN: 15334449     Source Type: Book Series    
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