Global competition and new technologies andproduction processes encourage a reorganization of economic activity amongbusinesses and localities. A public policy response to the consequences ofglobal competition is to create concentrations of innovation activity (regionalinnovation systems). The...

State-assisted venture capital programs are a popular strategy to stimulate entrepreneurship and small business development. This study estimated the number of job-years created from 1988 to 2000 by the publicly- assisted program Kansas Venture Capital, Inc. (KVCI). The impact of KVCI in...

Mark Henry--Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics, Co-Coordinator of the Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, and Co-Director of the University Center for Economic Development at Clemson University--passed away on July, 23 2012 after a courageous seven year battle with cancer.