Papers in Innovation Studies Paper no. 2014/32 The Technological Resilience of U.S. Cities Pierre-Alexandre Balland (p.balland@uu.nl) Department of Economic Geography Utrecht University and Center for Innovation and Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University David Rigby (rigby@geog.ucla.edu) Departments of Geography and Statistics, University of California Los Angeles Ron Boschma (Ron.Boschma@circle.lu.se, r.boschma@geo.uu.nl) Center for Innovation and Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University and Utrecht University, Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht (URU) This is a pre-print version of a paper that has been submitted for publication to a journal. This version: December 2014 Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE) Lund University P.O. Box 117, Sölvegatan 16, S-221 00 Lund, SWEDEN http://www.circle.lu.se/publications C