Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Small Business Innovation Research Program -- 3 Geography and Innovation: The Role of Knowledge Spillovers and Agglomeration -- 4 Evaluating Innovative Activity -- 5 Metropolitan SBIR Activity in the 1990s -- 6 Agency Effects in Federally Funded Innovation -- 7 Metropolitan Patent Activity in the 1990s -- 8 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
Summary
"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
