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Urban Studies, Vol. 23, No. 5, 429-434 (1986)
DOI: 10.1080/00420988620080601
© 1986 Urban Studies Journal Limited

Additional Evidence on the Incubator Hypothesis: Detroit, 1970-75

James A. Kurre

The Behrend College of the Pennsylvania State University, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

In 1959, Hoover and Vernon stated that the central business district of the region was the logical site for a large number of the region's new firms, owing in part to the external economies to be found there. Since then, this incubator hypothesis has been tested by a large number of researchers, with mixed results. This note presents a new test of the hypothesis, using an extensive data base not previously used for this purpose. Considering births in both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries over a five-year period in the Detroit metropolitan region, the data fail to support the hypothesis for most industries, although there are some notable exceptions.


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