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Microgeography and the Direction of Inventive Activity

Christian Catalini
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Christian Catalini
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http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1312-6705
MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Christian Catalini

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Christian Catalini

[email protected]

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1312-6705

MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

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Published Online:19 Jul 2017https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2798

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