Infrastructure and Inequality
Peoples & Things
The Importance of Bridges in High Tech Entrepreneurship
Even as little as one additional bridge in a city can increase founding rates by almost 20%. This is the founding of new firms. These firms tend to span more industries and they tend to recombine different knowledge sources. Lee: If you take that with what we found with Sam, at least in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is that not everyone gets these new bridges, then it has some really deep implications potentially for the American dream.
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