Raab, Raymond A.; Kotamraju, Pradeep - In: Journal of Regional Science 46 (2006) 3, pp. 545-562
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed to construct an index of relative efficiencies by maximizing two proxies of high-tech output subject to minimizing five specific resources often associated with high-tech infrastructure. This approach ranks the 50 U.S. states from the most robustly...