Abstract:This study evaluates Porter’s (1997) premise that inner-city economic development could be facilitated by integrating inner-city businesses into regional clusters. Prior work shows that the presence of clusters creates externalities that improve regional performance. The authors extend that work by developing a framework to examine the role of clusters of related industries on job creation in the inner city. Unique data sets from the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Pro… Show more
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