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We are grateful for great comments from the Editors. Thanks to Michael Porter for providing us with access to the International Cluster Competitiveness Project (ICCP) data, and to Keyvan Vakili for valuable research assistance. Imtan Hamden-Livramento, Walter Park and Juan Ginarte generously shared their data on country-level patent protection. We benefited from the comments of seminar participants at the USPTO-Kauffman Foundation Conference on Patents, Entrepreneurship and Innovation; the NBER Biopharmaceuticals Location Conference; the Fox School of Business; the Georgia Institute of Technology; and Universidad Carlos III; as well as Ajay Agrawal, Anne Boring, Iain Cockburn, Phillip McCalman, and Matthew Slaughter.