The geography of small firm innovation
By: by Grant Black.
Series: International studies in entrepreneurship
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: United States. -- Small Business Administration. -- Small Business Innovation Research Program; High technology industries -- Location -- United States; Small business -- Technological innovations -- United States; Small business -- Research grants -- United States; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- United States; Research, Industrial -- Economic aspects -- United States
Description: "The Geography of Small Firm Innovation offers a look at the importance of geographic proximity to the innovative activity of the high-tech small firms. The work explores the concentration of innovation across metropolitan areas in the United States during the 1990's by introducing a novel measure of small-firm innovation based on the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program, the largest federal R & 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, which has implications for public policy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.