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Superlinear Scaling for Innovation in Cities

Physics and Society 2009-11-13 v3

Abstract

Superlinear scaling in cities, which appears in sociological quantities such as economic productivity and creative output relative to urban population size, has been observed but not been given a satisfactory theoretical explanation. Here we provide a network model for the superlinear relationship between population size and innovation found in cities, with a reasonable range for the exponent.

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@article{arxiv.0809.4994,
  title  = {Superlinear Scaling for Innovation in Cities},
  author = {Samuel Arbesman and Jon M. Kleinberg and Steven H. Strogatz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4994},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, submitted to Phys. Rev. E; references corrected; figures corrected, references and brief discussion added

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