Cogwheels

Innovation, place, communication, networks, distance, cities, migration, clusters, collaboration...

Saturday

Which population matters? Daytime or night time?

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Another excellent post from Atlantic Cities. Which population matters to planners, businesses and service providers? The number of inhabi...
Wednesday

Special issue on Diaspora Investment and Entrepreneurship: The Role of People, their Movements, and Capital in the International Economy

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A special issue of the Journal of International Management that I helped guest edit was just published: Diaspora Investment and Entrepreneur...

The Atlantic's Best CityReads of 2012

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One of my favorite sources for new cities research, The Atlantic Cities, has a best of 2012 list . From tickles to must-reads... ...starti...
Thursday

More data visualization: migration

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The International Organization for Migration has a cool interactive map on their website. Click on a country to see where its people are em...
Tuesday

Visualizations

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Geographic data almost always makes more sense when it's visualized. But good examples are hard to find (probably because they're ha...
Saturday

MTS India's redsparks campaign to hire a brand new innovation team

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MTS India is hiring a brand new innovation team, 6-10 people. Looking for unique individuals who are passionate about spearheading innovatio...
Friday

India announces a national innovation fund for early stage capital

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News alert The National Innovation Council has recently addressed 2 major issues in the Indian innovation ecosystem Within the next 2-3 m...
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Tuesday

China: Green cities don't have to come at the expense of economic growth

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"How green are China's cities?" McKinsey Quarterly, January 2011. In connection with the World Economic Forum's themes, ...
Wednesday

Science and the city

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Johnson, Steven. Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World, R...
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Thursday

Hypios

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A while back I was excited to discover Innocentive , an online platform to match scientists around the world with people who needed a proble...
Monday

The size of cities

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2 recent NYT columns about the size of cities caught my eye. Edward Glaeser explains why India's (and emerging economies') citie...

Survey on Indian and Chinese immigrants/returnees

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Wadhwa, V., Saxenian, A., Freeman, R. B., & Gereffi, G. (2009). America's Loss is the World's Gain: America's New Immigrant ...

In print

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... at least in the UK. The US edition will follow in a month or two. Gurneeta Vasudeva and I contributed chapter 5: "R&D intern...
Friday

Dissertation abstract

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Now that the dissertation draft is complete, I feel it's time to put my abstract online for those people who want a bit more than my ...
Monday

Innovation has a long way to go in Bangalore

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As the headlines proclaim Bangalore to be the next Silicon Valley, more critical voices are often drowned out. This one will hopefully fare ...
Saturday

Bibliography

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I haven't yet figured out a simple way to publish Endnote files online. Until then, here's a link to my reference library in Google...
Sunday

R&D Outsourcing and the Economics of Innovation

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The Institute for the Future ( ITFT ) has set up a project called Delta Scan , speculating on the future of science and technology for the y...
Saturday

New technologies at work

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Christina Garsten and Helena Wulff (eds), New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality, Berg Publishers, 2003 See the f...
Friday

Argonauts, ethnic scientific communities

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AnnaLee Saxenian, The New Argonauts, Harvard University Press, 2006 William Kerr, Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technolog...

From Bangalored to Bangalore envy

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Gleefully reported by the press today: "Bangalore envy" is one of 10 new now-words being flogged by Ira Matathia and Marian Salzm...
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Researcher in regional economics - anything on innovation, place and networks.
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