M Nathan - Journal of Economic Geography, 2015 - academic.oup.com

Same difference? Minority ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK.

Stem workforce diversity

Nathan

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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 …

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