constraints. Innovation and Small Firms brings together two large data bases recently released by the U. S. Small Business … evaluate the data bases in the context of the literature on innovation, market structure, and firm size. They present their … R&D, innovation, and productivity, and analyze the interaction between technological regimes and the role of government …

This report explores how U.S. federal institutions fund and influence innovation in the knowledge economy context and … having significantly contributed to innovation and growth: (1) the Small Business Innovative Research program (SBIR), (2) the … advanced US innovation is explained in detail. The beginning of the report offers a lens for understanding why and how research …