The disruptive inventions that make people go ‘Wow!’ tend to come from research in the heart of cities and not in the suburbs, a new study suggests. Researchers found that, within metro areas, the majority of patents come from innovations created in suburbs. But the unconventional, disruptive innovations — the ones that combine research from different technological fields — are more likely to be produced in cities.
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Source: ScienceDaily