【摘要】There is a growing body of regional research on the location of creative and talentedworkers. This paper offers a new perspective by examining independent inventors. Based on a comprehensive inventor database for 2000–2009, we detect a striking orientation toward the western regions of the United States. In a negative binomial regression analysis, the effects of natural and cultural amenities, the research milieu, human capital, local per capita income,industrial diversity, tolerance, and other factors are tested against the US county-level distribution of independent inventors. Statistically significant estimates are found for natural amenities,human capital, research universities and county population. Of all variables, independent inventor location exhibits the highest elasticity with respect to per capita income. This factor has often been overlooked in research on the creative economy.

【关键词】Independent inventors;creative class;location

【文献来源】Paulo Guimar?es； Johnathan Munn；Douglas Woodward.Papers in Regional Studies.2015（1）