This book offers a geographic dimension to the study of innovation and product
commercialization. Building on the literature in economics and geography, this book …

The findings in this paper provide some insight into how small firms are able to innovate.
Using a production function approach to relate knowledge generating inputs to innovative …

The fate of regions and of nations increasingly depends upon ideas and innovations to
facilitate growth. In recent years, geographers have made fundamental contributions to our …

Abstract A UDRETSCH DB and F RITSCH M.(1994) The geography of firm births in
Germany, Reg. Studies 28, 359–365. The linkages between the extent to which increasing …

It will be helpful to begin with a brief outline of the traditional approach to technology policy,
that of market failure and the social inadequacy of private incentive mechanisms. Since the …

Degree: Dr. DegreeYear: 1992 Institute: Universiteit Twente (The Netherlands) Publisher:
Avebury Gower, Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot Hants Gu11 3hr, England. It has been …

This paper uses an innovation production function to relate the presence of geographically-
mediated complementary knowledge resources to the innovative activity of small and large …

New-firm startup activity is examined within a framework pooling a cross-section of 117
industries over six time periods between 1976 and 1986. A model is introduced relating …

The new learning has raised a number of explanations why smaller enterprises may, in fact,
tend to have an innovative advantage, at least in certain industries. The purpose of this …

A dynamic framework based on the process of firm selection and industry evolution is used
to analyse the post-entry performance of new firms. In particular, it is hypothesized that …