Innovation and the growth of cities This new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at the regional level and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow but others decline. While the analysis draws on industrial organization labor economics regional science geography and entrepreneurship the book focuses on innovation and the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory Machine generated contents note: 1 Technology and entrepreneurship 1 2 Knowledge innovation and firm size 24 3 Local geographic spillovers 44 4 Sectoral characteristics 63 5 Innovation of entrepreneurial firms 74 6 Capital structure innovation and firm size 98 7 Employment growth in metropolitan areas 115 8 Employment wages and R&D spillovers 135 9 Heterogeneity versus specialization 154 10 Regional innovation systems 167 11 Epilogue: towards a new model of regional economic development 192 Appendix A: The innovation database 196 Appendix B: Innovations R&D lab employment and university research by state 203 Appendix C: Innovation R&D lab employment and university research by MSA 205 Appendix D: Innovation private R&D lab employment and university research by MSA and industry sector 209 Appendix E: Industry groupings 214 Appendix F: List of variables 215.