"By investigating an exemplar headquarters economy--Minneapolis-St. Paul--this volume demonstrates that the talent pool (managers), its movement among companies and industries in a region (mobility), and the of its inflow and outflow from a region (migration), can create a virtuous cycle that...

Small and medium sized firms play an important role in the process of creative destruction. The focus of the paper is on the international diffusion of small and medium sized firms innovations. Small and medium sized firms face two challenges in globalization: property rights protection and...