The Geography of Small Firm Innovation

by Grant Black

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation offers a unique look at the importance of geographic proximity to the innovative activity of high-tech small firms. The book explores the concentration of innovation across metropolitan areas in the United States during the 1990s, by introducing a novel measure of small-firm innovation based on the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program, the largest federal R and D program for small business. The empirical evidence indicates the differing effects of technological infrastructure on the likelihood of innovation occurring in a metropolitan area, whi

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Year of publication:	2005
Other Persons:	Black, Grant (contributor)
Publisher:	Boston, MA : Springer Science + Business Media, Inc
Subject:	KMU \| SME \| Hochtechnologie \| High technology \| Regionales Cluster \| Regional cluster \| Innovation \| Industrieforschung \| Industrial research \| Technologiepolitik \| Technology policy \| Spillover-Effekt \| Spillover effect \| USA \| United States \| Klein- und Mittelbetrieb \| Regionale Wirtschaftsstruktur \| Spill-over-Effekt \| Wirtschaftsgeografie \| Innovationsförderung
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com] ; Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (XVIII, 180 p, digital)
Series:	International Studies in Entrepreneurship ; 1 SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Literaturangaben Introduction; The Small Business Innovation Research Program; Geography and Innovation; Evaluating Innovative Activity; Metropolitan Sbir Activity in the 1990s; Agency Effects in Federally Funded Innovation; Metropolitan Patent Activity in the 1990s; Conclusion;
ISBN:	978-0-306-48745-3 ; 978-1-4020-7612-1
Other identifiers:	10.1007/0-306-48745-4 [DOI]
Classification:	Unternehmensplanung, Unternehmenskontrolle ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Wirtschaftsstruktur: Allgemeines
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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