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    New paper: Modelling clusters from the ground up

    Posted on Thursday 14 July 2022 by Max Nathan

    Heads up — I have a new clusters paper out, open access, written with Emmanouil Tranos and Christoph Stich.It’s largely technical — we develop a new set of tools for tracking cluster evolution using geolocated business website text and metadata, then t…

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    entrepreneurship, innovation, Machine Learning, Tech City, urbanism

    New paper: Innovative Events

    Posted on Thursday 21 October 2021 by Max Nathan

    Anna and I have a new paper out in Research Policy. Publishing this has been an epic experience: six years in the making.The TLDR; we introduce a brand-new measure of innovative activity — media-reported product and service launches — and run it throug…

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    Data Science, entrepreneurship, innovation, productivity

    Incubators, accelerators and cities

    Posted on Thursday 10 June 2021 by Max Nathan

    Incubators, accelerators and urban economic developmentI’ve got a new paper on incubators, accelerators and cities out in Urban Studies. It’s written with Margarida Madaleno, Henry Overman and Sevrin Waights.Why should you read it? I think there’s four…

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    Cities, entrepreneurship, innovation, startup-accelerators, urbanism

    Working hard, but what for?

    Posted on Friday 10 May 2019 by Max Nathan

    © Tim Mazzarol 2014Back from Glasgow, where I’ve been at the University talking about entrepreneurial ecosystems. Many thanks to Ben Spigel and Fumi Kitagawa for inviting me, and for organising such a nice group of people.It was a pretty striking event…

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    Cities, economic-development, entrepreneurship, innovation, startup

    Spatial Imaginaries and Tech Cities

    Posted on Monday 29 April 2019 by Max Nathan

    The original Silicon Roundabout. © Matt BiddulphI have a new paper out in the Journal of Economic Geography, written with Emma Vandore and Georgina Voss.It draws on 10 years of fieldwork by the three of us, and looks at tech clusters, specifically how …

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    economic-development, entrepreneurship, startup, Tech City, urban planning

    Industrial strategy: four rationales

    Posted on Thursday 14 March 2019 by Max Nathan

    © Andy GilmoreA What Works Centre piece, part of our industrial strategy design guide.It features in our 10 Principles report, which forms the centrepiece of a major programme of work with central and local decisionmakers in 2018 and 2019.As a fast rev…

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    economic-development, economics, entrepreneurship, innovation

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