Mitchell Feldman
Biographic Data
| ID | 81926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitchell Feldman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mitchell |
| FAMILY NAME | Feldman |
| SIGNATURE | FELDMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3552-7243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 218 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
We're not in dreamland anymore: The consequences of community opioid use on local industrial composition
We estimate the effect of opioid use rates on local economic resilience through changes in industrial composition. We find regional opioid use rates adversely affect firm growth in general, with the greatest impact on small firms. Our results are robust to several identification strategies (Difference in Differences, Propensity Score Matching, and Instrumental Variables) and alternative empirical specifications. Our findings establish that local …
Entrepreneurial finance and regional ecosystem emergence
Gathering round Big Tech: How the market for acquisitions concentrates the digital sector
Small businesses within the digital sector are spread across the USA. However, a significant number of promising small businesses concentrate in major technology hubs, either initially or through relocation. This phenomenon can be attributed to the influential role played by localized markets for financing and acquisition, which is, in turn, driven by the dominant market positions held by major digital platforms. Our research demonstrates a clear…
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: Ecosystem perspectives
evolutionary economic geography, entrepreneurial ecosystem, ecosystem emergence, industry cluster, regional economic change
We miss you George Bailey: The effect of local banking conditions on the county-level timing of the Great Recession
Community banks have a unique capacity to strengthen economic resilience by alleviating local firm credit constraints during economic downturns. We provide evidence that banking access and community bank market share affected both the county-level timing and duration of the Great Recession in the United States. Using the Cox Proportional Hazards and Heckman Selection models, we find that communities with a higher community bank market share are l…
Regional income disparities, monopoly and finance
The overall rise in inequality in the USA since 1980 has been matched by a rise in inequality between places; local and regional development policies aimed at reversing this polarisation have seen limited success. We propose an explanation for the spatial polarisation of prosperity and the failure of the policies to remedy it. Our explanation is based on the interaction of monopoly power, agglomeration economies in technology clusters and the pow…
Primary Care Physician Recognition and Documentation of Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese and Latinx Patients During Routine Visits: A Cross-Sectional Study
Purpose: Asian and Latinx individuals have a high burden of untreated depression. Under-recognition of depressive symptoms may contribute to existing disparities in depression treatment. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to determine whether physicians recognize and treat depressive symptoms for Chinese and Latinx patients during routine primary care visits. Methods: We analyzed data from 1171 Chinese and Latinx patients who were in…
Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies have the potential to significantly disrupt labor markets. While AI and automation can augment the productivity of some workers, they can replace the work done by others and will likely transform almost all occupations at least to some degree. Rising automation is happening in a period of growing economic inequality, raising fears of mass technological unemployment and a r…
Local Prior Employment and Ecosystem Dynamics
This article utilizes a unique database (PLACE, the PLatform for Advancing Community Economies) to explore relationships between founders' prior work experiences and the outcomes of their entrepreneurial firms. The authors capture and compare multiple, intersecting, often overlapping, prior work experiences and assess their differential interactions within a local ecosystem. They augment existing empirical research, which has looked most closely …
The Principle of Relatedness
Approximating Exogenous Variation in R&D: Evidence from the Kentucky and North Carolina SBIR State Match Programs
This paper exploits policy discontinuities at U.S. state borders to examine the effect of R&D investments on innovative projects. We examine the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) State Match program, which offers noncompetitive grants to federally awarded SBIR Phase I projects that are eligible to compete for Phase II. Results from SBIR activity (2002–2010) indicate heterogeneous treatment effects. Notably, the positive differential effec…
Policy and collective action in place
The role of policy is often misunderstood, either revered as a panacea or despised as a barrier to change. This is especially true in the process of regional transformation. This article develops a case of economic development policy as an adaptive and improvisational process: effective policy is endogenous and the result of negotiations and power relationships. Transforming a regional economy involves myriad policy actions so subtle and so numer…
Institutional change and network evolution: Explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region
Institutional change and network evolution: explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region. Regional Studies. This paper investigates how institutions impact tie formation, arguing that institutions can direct firm strategies towards exploration or towards exploitation. It translates these strategies into tie formations: explorative tie formation produces structural holes as a…
Institutional life within an entrepreneurial region
Institutions are often regarded as static and unchanging, portrayed as constraints on innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional economic change. We propose an alternative perspective in order to understand how entrepreneurs experience and engage with institutions in ways that shape and help advance their collective interests. Motivated by our own research on regional entrepreneurial development, we theorize institutions as lived and interpreted …
Stepping up: An empirical analysis of the role of social innovation in response to an economic recession
Categorising organisations as either for-profit or nonprofit is a false dichotomy as existing for-profit firms are becoming more socially conscience while nonprofits are adopting profit-making activities to ensure their viability. This paper conceptualises the array of social practices as a continuum of social innovation and empirically demonstrates variation not captured by legal designation. Using a survey from the US state of North Carolina, t…
The economic value of local social networks
The idea that local social capital yields economic benefits is fundamental to theories of agglomeration, and central to claims about the virtues of cities. However, this relationship has not been evaluated using methods that permit confident statements about causality. This article examines what happens to firms that become affiliated with ‘dealmakers’—individuals who are unusually well connected in local social networks. We adopt a quasi-experim…
Isolated in the Lab: Examining Dissatisfaction with Postdoctoral Appointments
Dissatisfaction with postdoctoral appointments is associated with demographics, career goals, types of research, postdoc-advisor interaction, and program quality. Rather than a simple inverse relationship to dissatisfaction, the effect of program quality depends on the postdoc's autonomy to shape a research project, interaction with an advisor, and the advisor's commercialization-related activities
The sorcerer's postdoc apprentice: Uncertain funding and contingent highly skilled labour
Postdoctoral scholars may be economic complements or substitutes for faculty, doctoral research assistants and capital in the production of university life science research. Using data on 120 US universities, we present two cross-sectional (1993 and 2006) descriptive econometric models. Results suggest that postdocs serve primarily as complements to other labour inputs and capital. These relationships are potentially a source of concern to scienc…
RKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion and Adoption of rDNA Methods
Feldman M. P., Kogler D. F. and Rigby D. L. rKnowledge: the spatial diffusion and adoption of rDNA methods, Regional Studies. The 1980 patent granted to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer for their development of rDNA technology played a critical role in the establishment of the modern biotechnology industry. From the birth of this general-purpose technology in the San Francisco Bay area, rDNA-related knowledge diffused across sectors and regions of…
Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations
This article analyzes factors shaping technological capabilities in USA and European countries, and shows that the differences between the two continents in this respect are much smaller than commonly assumed. The analysis demonstrates a tendency toward convergence in technological capabilities for the sample as a whole between 1998 and 2008. The results indicate that social capabilities, such as well-developed public knowledge infrastructure, an…
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005, Paul E. Ceruzzi, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2008). 192 pp. US$29.95 (hbk). ISBN-13: 978 0 262 03374 9. I am inspired by Paul Ceruzzi's bo
Dealmakers in Place: Social Capital Connections in Regional Entrepreneurial Economies
Feldman M. and Zoller T. D. Dealmakers in place: social capital connections in regional entrepreneurial economies, Regional Studies. This paper examines the internal anatomy of regional social capital and develops a role for dealmakers – individuals who provide active regional stewardship. An empirical analysis of twelve US regions finds great variation in the presence of dealmakers. The strong local presence of dealmakers is correlated with high…
Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation
Local Entrepreneurship in Context
Audretsch D. B., Falck O., Feldman M. P. and Heblich S. Local entrepreneurship in context, Regional Studies. This paper posits that regions provide locational factors which determine the industry structure and with it entrepreneurial opportunities whose exploitation influences regional dynamics. To test this interrelation between regional characteristics and entrepreneurial activities, seventy-four West German regions were classified by their end…
Under the Lens: The Geography of Optical Science as an Emerging Industry
Optical science is the study of light and the ways in which light interacts with matter. Although its origins coincide with the earliest scientific inquiry, modern optics is an enabling technology that is applied to a variety of intermediate markets-telecommunication equipment, medical devices, scientific instruments, semiconductors, imaging and reproduction, defense and security, and retail logistics. One difficulty in studying emerging technolo…
Creating a Cluster While Building a Firm: Entrepreneurs and the Formation of Industrial Clusters
Feldman M. P., Francis J. and Bercovitz, J. (2005) Creating a cluster while building a firm: entrepreneurs and the formation of industrial clusters, Regional Studies39, 129-141. The objective of the paper is to provide a theoretical model of cluster development that is informed by an appreciative interpretation of case studies. It argues that entrepreneurs are a critical element in the formation of clusters. Entrepreneurs are important actors in …
The Geographic Sources of Innovation: Technological Infrastructure and Product Innovation in the United States
The fate of regions and of nations increasingly depends upon ideas and innovations to facilitate growth. In recent years, geographers have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the innovation process by exploring the diffusion of innovation, the location of R&D, and the geography of high-technology industry. This paper examines the geographic sources of innovation, focusing specifically on the relationship between product innovat…
RKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion and Adoption of rDNA Methods
Feldman M. P., Kogler D. F. and Rigby D. L. rKnowledge: the spatial diffusion and adoption of rDNA methods, Regional Studies. The 1980 patent granted to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer for their development of rDNA technology played a critical role in the establishment of the modern biotechnology industry. From the birth of this general-purpose technology in the San Francisco Bay area, rDNA-related knowledge diffused across sectors and regions of…
Truth for Its Own Sake: Academic Culture and Technology Transfer at Johns Hopkins University
Dealmakers in Place: Social Capital Connections in Regional Entrepreneurial Economies
Feldman M. and Zoller T. D. Dealmakers in place: social capital connections in regional entrepreneurial economies, Regional Studies. This paper examines the internal anatomy of regional social capital and develops a role for dealmakers – individuals who provide active regional stewardship. An empirical analysis of twelve US regions finds great variation in the presence of dealmakers. The strong local presence of dealmakers is correlated with high…
Under the Lens: The Geography of Optical Science as an Emerging Industry
Optical science is the study of light and the ways in which light interacts with matter. Although its origins coincide with the earliest scientific inquiry, modern optics is an enabling technology that is applied to a variety of intermediate markets-telecommunication equipment, medical devices, scientific instruments, semiconductors, imaging and reproduction, defense and security, and retail logistics. One difficulty in studying emerging technolo…
Local Entrepreneurship in Context
Audretsch D. B., Falck O., Feldman M. P. and Heblich S. Local entrepreneurship in context, Regional Studies. This paper posits that regions provide locational factors which determine the industry structure and with it entrepreneurial opportunities whose exploitation influences regional dynamics. To test this interrelation between regional characteristics and entrepreneurial activities, seventy-four West German regions were classified by their end…
Institutional change and network evolution: Explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region
Institutional change and network evolution: explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region. Regional Studies. This paper investigates how institutions impact tie formation, arguing that institutions can direct firm strategies towards exploration or towards exploitation. It translates these strategies into tie formations: explorative tie formation produces structural holes as a…
The economic value of local social networks
The idea that local social capital yields economic benefits is fundamental to theories of agglomeration, and central to claims about the virtues of cities. However, this relationship has not been evaluated using methods that permit confident statements about causality. This article examines what happens to firms that become affiliated with ‘dealmakers’—individuals who are unusually well connected in local social networks. We adopt a quasi-experim…
Institutional life within an entrepreneurial region
Institutions are often regarded as static and unchanging, portrayed as constraints on innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional economic change. We propose an alternative perspective in order to understand how entrepreneurs experience and engage with institutions in ways that shape and help advance their collective interests. Motivated by our own research on regional entrepreneurial development, we theorize institutions as lived and interpreted …
Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations
This article analyzes factors shaping technological capabilities in USA and European countries, and shows that the differences between the two continents in this respect are much smaller than commonly assumed. The analysis demonstrates a tendency toward convergence in technological capabilities for the sample as a whole between 1998 and 2008. The results indicate that social capabilities, such as well-developed public knowledge infrastructure, an…
Where science comes to life: University bioscience, commercial spin‐offs, and regional economic development
Biotechnology, rather than being defined as a distinct industry like steelmaking or shipbuilding, is instead a scientific knowledge base—a rapidly evolving technology—that has economically valuable applications in such diverse industries as Pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, agriculture, bioen‐vironmental remediation, and chemical processing. Biotechnology has captured the imagination of ambitious scientific investigators and investors seeking…
U.S. Research Universities' Institutional Conflict of Interest Policies
RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES RECEIVE INCREASING amounts of income from intellectual property, which makes institutional conflict of interest (ICOI) policies increasingly important. We analyzed the content and scope of ICOI policies at 60 research universities in the U.S. Association of American Universities. In particular, we focused on the following categories: disclosure, review, management, and prohibited or constrained activities. Most of the plans …
Isolated in the Lab: Examining Dissatisfaction with Postdoctoral Appointments
Dissatisfaction with postdoctoral appointments is associated with demographics, career goals, types of research, postdoc-advisor interaction, and program quality. Rather than a simple inverse relationship to dissatisfaction, the effect of program quality depends on the postdoc's autonomy to shape a research project, interaction with an advisor, and the advisor's commercialization-related activities
The Internet revolution and the geography of innovation
Realizing the promise of evolutionary economic geography: Ecosystem perspectives
evolutionary economic geography, entrepreneurial ecosystem, ecosystem emergence, industry cluster, regional economic change
We miss you George Bailey: The effect of local banking conditions on the county-level timing of the Great Recession
Community banks have a unique capacity to strengthen economic resilience by alleviating local firm credit constraints during economic downturns. We provide evidence that banking access and community bank market share affected both the county-level timing and duration of the Great Recession in the United States. Using the Cox Proportional Hazards and Heckman Selection models, we find that communities with a higher community bank market share are l…
Policy and collective action in place
The role of policy is often misunderstood, either revered as a panacea or despised as a barrier to change. This is especially true in the process of regional transformation. This article develops a case of economic development policy as an adaptive and improvisational process: effective policy is endogenous and the result of negotiations and power relationships. Transforming a regional economy involves myriad policy actions so subtle and so numer…
Stepping up: An empirical analysis of the role of social innovation in response to an economic recession
Categorising organisations as either for-profit or nonprofit is a false dichotomy as existing for-profit firms are becoming more socially conscience while nonprofits are adopting profit-making activities to ensure their viability. This paper conceptualises the array of social practices as a continuum of social innovation and empirically demonstrates variation not captured by legal designation. Using a survey from the US state of North Carolina, t…
The sorcerer's postdoc apprentice: Uncertain funding and contingent highly skilled labour
Postdoctoral scholars may be economic complements or substitutes for faculty, doctoral research assistants and capital in the production of university life science research. Using data on 120 US universities, we present two cross-sectional (1993 and 2006) descriptive econometric models. Results suggest that postdocs serve primarily as complements to other labour inputs and capital. These relationships are potentially a source of concern to scienc…
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography
Economic geography has undergone a renaissance, led by a new As the Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (Clark et al., 2000) was going into press. Porter, M. E. Location, Clusters, and Company Strategy. In Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by G. Clark, M. Feldman, and M. Gertler. Oxford:. Ray Hudson has been a member of staff in the Department of Geography since 1972 (having been Hudson, R. The Oxford handbook of economic geography
The Geography of Innovation
The geography of innovation refers to the spatial clustering of innovative activity and the advantages conferred by co-location. Economic actors realize gains when located to places with abundant resources, well-developed social networks and the chance for serendipitous encounters: all factors that increase the probability of recognizing opportunity and easily solving problems. Location can lower search costs through localized knowledge spillover…
R & D Spillovers and Recipient Firm Size
The findings in this paper provide some insight into how small firms are able to innovate. Using a production function approach to relate knowledge generating inputs to innovative output, the empirical results suggest that small firms are the recipients of R&D spillovers from knowledge generated in the R&D centers of their larger counterparts and in universities. Such R&D spillovers are apparently more decisive in promoting the innovative activit…
Knowledge complementarity and innovation
The Geographic Sources of Innovation: Technological Infrastructure and Product Innovation in the United States
The fate of regions and of nations increasingly depends upon ideas and innovations to facilitate growth. In recent years, geographers have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the innovation process by exploring the diffusion of innovation, the location of R&D, and the geography of high-technology industry. This paper examines the geographic sources of innovation, focusing specifically on the relationship between product innovat…
Turath (Heritage). Simon Shaheen Performs Masterworks of the Middle East
Innovative clusters and the industry life cycle
Turath (Heritage). Simon Shaheen Performs Masterworks of the Middle East
The New Economics Of Innovation, Spillovers And Agglomeration: Areview Of Empirical Studies
This paper reviews recent empirical studies of location and innovation. The objective is to highlight the questions addressed, approaches adopted, and further issues that remain. The review is organized around the traditions of measuring geographically mediated spillovers and productivity studies that introduce a geographic dimension. The first part identilies four separate strains in thc empirical spillover literature: innovation production func…
Innovation in cities
Where science comes to life: University bioscience, commercial spin‐offs, and regional economic development
Biotechnology, rather than being defined as a distinct industry like steelmaking or shipbuilding, is instead a scientific knowledge base—a rapidly evolving technology—that has economically valuable applications in such diverse industries as Pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, agriculture, bioen‐vironmental remediation, and chemical processing. Biotechnology has captured the imagination of ambitious scientific investigators and investors seeking…
The Internet revolution and the geography of innovation
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography
Economic geography has undergone a renaissance, led by a new As the Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (Clark et al., 2000) was going into press. Porter, M. E. Location, Clusters, and Company Strategy. In Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by G. Clark, M. Feldman, and M. Gertler. Oxford:. Ray Hudson has been a member of staff in the Department of Geography since 1972 (having been Hudson, R. The Oxford handbook of economic geography
Chapter 61 Knowledge spillovers and the geography of innovation
Truth for Its Own Sake: Academic Culture and Technology Transfer at Johns Hopkins University
Creating a Cluster While Building a Firm: Entrepreneurs and the Formation of Industrial Clusters
Feldman M. P., Francis J. and Bercovitz, J. (2005) Creating a cluster while building a firm: entrepreneurs and the formation of industrial clusters, Regional Studies39, 129-141. The objective of the paper is to provide a theoretical model of cluster development that is informed by an appreciative interpretation of case studies. It argues that entrepreneurs are a critical element in the formation of clusters. Entrepreneurs are important actors in …
Academic Entrepreneurs: Organizational Change at the Individual Level
This study explores the process of organizational change by examining localized social learning in organizational subunits. Specifically, we examine participation in university technology transfer, a new organizational initiative, by tracking 1,780 faculty members, examining their backgrounds and work environments, and following their engagement with academic entrepreneurship. We find that individual adoption of the new initiative may be either s…
Cluster Genesis: Technology-Based Industrial Development
U.S. Research Universities' Institutional Conflict of Interest Policies
RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES RECEIVE INCREASING amounts of income from intellectual property, which makes institutional conflict of interest (ICOI) policies increasingly important. We analyzed the content and scope of ICOI policies at 60 research universities in the U.S. Association of American Universities. In particular, we focused on the following categories: disclosure, review, management, and prohibited or constrained activities. Most of the plans …
Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation
Local Entrepreneurship in Context
Audretsch D. B., Falck O., Feldman M. P. and Heblich S. Local entrepreneurship in context, Regional Studies. This paper posits that regions provide locational factors which determine the industry structure and with it entrepreneurial opportunities whose exploitation influences regional dynamics. To test this interrelation between regional characteristics and entrepreneurial activities, seventy-four West German regions were classified by their end…
Under the Lens: The Geography of Optical Science as an Emerging Industry
Optical science is the study of light and the ways in which light interacts with matter. Although its origins coincide with the earliest scientific inquiry, modern optics is an enabling technology that is applied to a variety of intermediate markets-telecommunication equipment, medical devices, scientific instruments, semiconductors, imaging and reproduction, defense and security, and retail logistics. One difficulty in studying emerging technolo…
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005, Paul E. Ceruzzi, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2008). 192 pp. US$29.95 (hbk). ISBN-13: 978 0 262 03374 9. I am inspired by Paul Ceruzzi's bo
Dealmakers in Place: Social Capital Connections in Regional Entrepreneurial Economies
Feldman M. and Zoller T. D. Dealmakers in place: social capital connections in regional entrepreneurial economies, Regional Studies. This paper examines the internal anatomy of regional social capital and develops a role for dealmakers – individuals who provide active regional stewardship. An empirical analysis of twelve US regions finds great variation in the presence of dealmakers. The strong local presence of dealmakers is correlated with high…
Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations
This article analyzes factors shaping technological capabilities in USA and European countries, and shows that the differences between the two continents in this respect are much smaller than commonly assumed. The analysis demonstrates a tendency toward convergence in technological capabilities for the sample as a whole between 1998 and 2008. The results indicate that social capabilities, such as well-developed public knowledge infrastructure, an…
The sorcerer's postdoc apprentice: Uncertain funding and contingent highly skilled labour
Postdoctoral scholars may be economic complements or substitutes for faculty, doctoral research assistants and capital in the production of university life science research. Using data on 120 US universities, we present two cross-sectional (1993 and 2006) descriptive econometric models. Results suggest that postdocs serve primarily as complements to other labour inputs and capital. These relationships are potentially a source of concern to scienc…
Economics (26 works) · Business (20 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (18 works) · Economic geography (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Innovation and Knowledge Management (9 works) · Regional science (9 works)