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The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.

Rising inequality has focused attention on the benefits of new technologies. Do these accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments.

In this paper, we deal with the complex relationship connecting inequality to innovation, and the ways through which public investment, in particular public participation to R&D initiatives, may affect it. We first stress that multiple different equilibria may exist in the inequality-innovation space.