TY  - BOOK
AU  - Black,Grant
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Geography of Small Firm Innovation
T2  - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
SN  - 9780306487453
U1  - 658.421 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - ECONOMICS
KW  - GEOGRAPHY
KW  - ENTREPRENEURSHIP
KW  - ECONOMICS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
KW  - ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
N1  - 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
N2  - 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, which has implications for public policy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48745-4
ER  -