Paper on the geography of innovation awarded

Toronto – A paper co-authored by Prof. Ruben Gaetani of the University of Toronto is the recipient of the 2021 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize from the Royal Economic Culture. The prize is awarded every year for the finest paper published in The Economic Journal by authors who are within five several years of obtaining their PhDs.’

Gaetani is an assistant professor of strategic administration at the College of Toronto Mississauga and the Rotman University of Administration. The paper, ‘The Geography of Unconventional Innovation,’ appeared in the May 2021 problem of the Financial Journal and was co-authored with Enrico Berkes, a publish-doctoral researcher at Ohio Condition University.

The paper demonstrates that innovation exercise is significantly less concentrated in large-density places than frequently considered. Yet, innovations primarily based on atypical mixtures of information are in truth much more prevalent in high-density urban centres. The running editors of the Economic Journal said that the paper generates a better being familiar with of wherever innovation and contemporary progress will come from as a essential element of economics and modern society in common and demonstrated a mix of new, intriguing points with a arduous spatial product.  The paper is offered on the internet.

“This award highlights that there are fantastic opportunities to operate at the intersection of innovation and city economics. I hope to contribute much more to this place in my foreseeable future investigate,” says Prof. Gaetani.

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