Max Nathan | UCL

  • Don’t Shoot the Pianist (with Diana Gutierrez-Posada and Tasos Kitsos). Economic Geography (2025).

    Centre for Cities podcast. Coverage in City AM. 2023 working paper version.
  • Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers(with Diana Gutierrez-Posada, Tasos Kitsos and Massi Nuccio). Economic Geography (2023).

    Centre for Cities podcast. My writeup on Medium.
  • The City and The Virus. Urban Studies (2023).

    Original Medium post. Interview with KooZA/rch.
  • Does light touch cluster policy work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme Research Policy (2022).

    Ungated version.

    Coverage in The Observer. Wired. Centrepiece. Research Fortnight. Centre for Cities podcast.
  • Incubators, Accelerators and Urban Economic Development (with Margarida Madaleno, Henry Overman and Sevrin Waights). Urban Studies (2022). LEAD ARTICLE.

    My writeup on Medium. CLGU slide deck.
  • Innovative Events: Product launches, innovation and firm performance (with Anna Rosso). Research Policy (2022).

    Code and data.

     My writeup on Medium. Coverage in the LSE Business Review.
  • Modelling Clusters From The Ground Up: A Web Data Approach (with Christoph Stich and Emmanouil Tranos). Environment and Planning B (2022).

    My writeup on Medium. Emmanouil's writeup.
  • Will Coronavirus cause a big city exodus? (with Henry Overman). Environment and Planning B (2020).

    Ungated version.

    Updated version. Coverage in the 2020 Bartlett Review. Centrepiece.
  • Creative Differences? Creative economy employment in the US and UK (with Tom Kemeny and Dave O'Brien).Regional Studies (2020).

    Ungated version.
  • Spatial Imaginaries and Tech Cities (with Emma Vandore and Georgina Voss). Journal of Economic Geography (2019).

    Ungated version.
  • Ethnic diversity and business performance: Which firms? Which cities? Environment and Planning A (2016).

    Ungated version.
  • Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? (with Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose). Research Policy (2016).
  • Mapping Digital Businesses with Big Data: some early findings from the UK (with Anna Rosso). Research Policy (2015).

    Ungated version.
  • After Florida: Towards an economics of diversity European Urban and Regional Studies (2015). LEAD ARTICLE.
  • Same Difference? Minority ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation Journal of Economic Geography (2015).
  • Here Be Startups: Exploring London's 'Tech City' digital cluster (with Emma Vandore) Environment and Planning A (2014). LEAD ARTICLE.

    Ungated version.
  • The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migration IZA Journal of Migration (2014).
  • Agglomeration, Clusters and the new Industrial Policy (with Henry Overman). Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2013).

    Ungated version.
  • Cultural Diversity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: evidence from London firms (with Neil Lee) Economic Geography (2013).
  • East London Tech City: Ideas without a strategy? Local Economy (2011).

    Ungated version.
  • Innovation and the City (with Glenn Athey et al) Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice (2008).

    Ungated version.
  • The Wrong Stuff: Creative Class Theory and Economic Performance Canadian Journal of Regional Science (2007).
  • Urban Economics and Urban Policy (with Paul Cheshire and Henry Overman). Edward Elgar (2014)
  • Immigrant diversity & innovation in cities and regions (with Abi Cooke, Tom Kemeny and Ceren Ozgen), in F Lissoni and A Morrison (2025) (eds.), Migration and Innovation: A Research Agenda. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth: Some lessons from the first 10 years (with Danni Mason and Henry Overman), in J Breckon, M Saunders and E Whelan (2023) (eds.), The What Works Centres: Lessons and insights from an evidence movement. Bristol, Policy Press.
  • The Urban Economics of Superdiversity, in F Meissner, N Sigona and S Vertovec (2022) (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity. Oxford, OUP.
  • Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation (with Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose), in A Torré and D Gallaud (2022) (eds.), The Handbook of Proximity Relations. Edward Elgar.
  • Exploring Industry 4.0 Production in Sweden (with Claudio Fassio). In D Bailey and L DePropris (2020) (eds.) Industry 4.0: Transformational Regions. Routledge [open access]
  • Linking Research and Policy in Local Economies. in L Andres, J Bryson and R Mulhall (2018) (eds.) A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies. Edward Elgar
  • Exploring Digital Technology Industry Clusters using Administrative and Frontier Datasets (with Anna Rosso). in Z Chen and L Schintler (2017) (eds), Big Data for Urban and Regional Economies. Routledge
  • What works in urban regeneration? in D O'Brien and P Matthews (2015) (eds), Making Cities Work: Communities, Policy and Place. Policy Press
  • Top team demographics and business performance. In J Bakens et al (2015) (eds), E Pluribus Prosperitas: The economics of cultural diversity. Edward Elgar
  • Exploring Munich's innovation system (with Philipp Rode et al). In A Colantonio et al (2014), Transforming Urban Economies: Lessons from European and Asian Cities, Routledge
  • Multipliers from a major public sector relocation: the BBC’s move to Manchester (with H. Overman, C. Riom and M. Sanchez-Vidal). Funded by the ESRC.

    Coverage in the Financial Times, The Observer, the Financial Times again, and the Economics Observatory. CEPR Discussion Paper (November 2024). IZA Discussion Paper (October 2024). CEP Discussion Paper (October 2024). Slides.
  • The New Wave: Technology diffusion in the UK during the 2010s (with M. Draca, V. Nguyen, J. Oliviera-Cunha, A Rosso and A. Sivropoulos-Valero). Funded by the ESRC.

    Coverage in the LSE Business Review. IZA Discussion Paper (October 2024). POID Discussion Paper (October 2024). CEP Discussion Paper (October 2024). Slides.
  • The Economics of Blitzscaling (with M. Draca, V. Nguyen, J. Oliviera-Cunha, A Rosso and A. Sivropoulos-Valero). Funded by the ESRC.

    Slides.
  • Identifying Emerging Industries using text-based classification (with M. Draca, V. Nguyen, J. Oliviera-Cunha, A Rosso and A. Sivropoulos-Valero). Funded by the ESRC.

    Slides.
  • GRAPH-EE: building employer-employee panels from company accounts and the public web (with S. Gray, T. Kemeny, C. Ozgen, G. Pialli, J. Reades, A Rosso, M. Seré and A. Valero). Funded by the ESRC.
  • Migration, diversity and firm productivity (with T. Kemeny, C. Ozgen, G. Pialli, A Rosso, M. Seré and A. Valero). Funded by the ESRC.
  • Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Impacts of the 2017 Gender Pay Gap Legislation on worker and firm outcomes (with T. Kemeny, C. Ozgen, G. Pialli, A Rosso, M. Seré and A. Valero). Funded by the ESRC.
  • Migrant Entrepreneurs, High-Growth Firms and Cities (with T. Kemeny, C. Ozgen, G. Pialli, A Rosso, M. Seré and A. Valero). Funded by the ESRC.

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