book: The Geography of Small Firm Innovation
CONTENTS
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Small Business Innovation Research Program
Geography and Innovation: The Role of Knowledge Spillovers and
Agglomeration
Evaluating Innovative Activity
Metropolitan SBIR Activity in the 1990s
Agency Effects in Federally Funded Innovation
Metropolitan Patent Activity in the 1990s
Conclusion
Appendix A: Industries Comprising the High Technology Sector
Appendix B: Geographic Distribution of Innovation and Indicators
of the Technological Infrastructure in 1990-95
Appendix C: SBIR Phase II Awards by Metropolitan Area
Appendix D: Supplemental Evidence of Funding Agency Effects
Appendix E: Linking Standard Industrial Classifications to Patent
Classifications
Appendix F: Utility Patents by Metropolitan Area
Notes
References
Index