All day
Breakfast with SFI
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Talk
Credit Suisse
11 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Invention in the City: Urban Scaling and Innovation
Deborah Strumsky
Cities historically have served as engines for creativity, innovation, and wealth, and recent research has shown that “superlinear scaling” (predictable patterns of efficiencies related to city size) underlies a number of urban phenomena, including innovation. Understanding what mechanisms play a role in the relationship between population size and invention might help firms make optimal location decisions and help cities attract optimally-skilled workers – giving them a competitive advantage. Deborah Strumsky describes SFI research on the urban scaling of invention and explains why a city’s innovation productivity relative to other cities persists over decades and is driven by the technological diversity of the city’s firms and its position in the innovation networks across urban systems.
Dr. Strumsky is an urban economist currently at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She specializes in the study of innovation and the relationship between technological evolution and economic growth. Dr. Strumsky's analytic methods are drawn from a variety disciplines, including social network modeling, spatial econometrics, and approaches from complex adaptive systems (such as scaling analysis, agent based models, and network analysis).
Seating is limited and by invitation only.
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