Organizations and individuals may express their capacity for innovation through patents for new products and services. This study examines one region’s recent history of innovation. How do Indiana’s metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) compare with other MSAs when measuring patent...

This article examines the problem of labor market adjustment to industrial change through a case study of engineers displaced from California’s aerospace industry at the end of the Cold War. Displaced engineers experienced long unemployment spells and a decline in earnings after finding...

Emerging high-growth firms create the lion’s share of jobs in the United States. Even though these firms are economically important, policy researchers have not studied them to a great extent. This focus section tries to stimulate interest in the issue by reporting results of cutting-edge...

The ability to generate and exploit new knowledge is becoming the hallmark of a region’s economic strength, but unlike typical economic measures, innovation and knowledge production do not have accessible and obvious indicators. Because inventors frequently seek patent protection for new...

Former welfare recipients have fared differentially in the 1990s. Some are now earning self-supporting incomes, whereas others remain in poverty despite work efforts. Still others have no recorded work involvement. In this article, the authors attempt to learn why. The vast majority of research...

During the past 20 years, advancements in telecommunications technologies have had a direct impact on firms, particularly in the service-related sectors, and the telecommunications infrastructure has become important to their production processes. These developments also have had an indirect...