【Trade Seminar】Colocation of Production and Innovation: Evidence from the United States
2024/07/19
研討會日期 : 2024-07-19
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Wolfgang Keller
地點 : Conference room B110
主持人 : Professor Wen-Tai Hsu
演講者簡介 : Professor Wolfgang Keller received his PhD from Yale University in 1995. He is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests are international trade and investment, economic development, technological change, productivity, and economic history
演講摘要 : Manufacturers perform the majority of US patenting and R&D. The decades-long decline of US manufacturing employment raises concerns that US innovation will follow. We investigate the relationship between physical production and innovation by constructing a new dataset linking all US firms and their establishments to location geocodes and innovative activities. Preliminary results indicate that while firms with both manufacturing and innovation establishments exhibit higher patenting when these facilities are more spatially proximate, manufacturing firms' overall contribution to US innovation declines steadily and substantially over time. Moreover, cohorts of firms permanently exiting manufacturing in the 1990s and 2000s continue to patent at their prior pace.
