This book presents an in-depth investigation into small business research activity supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Albert N. Link and Alan C. OConnor explain the historical importance of small firms to the NIH and conduct...Lasīt vairāk
This essential book examines the history, trends and institutional nature of federal investments in research and development (R&D) in the United States. Esteemed expert in the field, Albert N. Link charts unexplored topics and issues associated with...Lasīt vairāk
Small Firm Research Supported by the National Institutes of Healths National Cancer Institute focuses on and describes dimensions of research and innovative behavior in a unique sample of small firms publicly funded through the Small Business Innova...Lasīt vairāk
The Globalization of the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program presents how SBIR programs have spread across the globe. The U.S. SBIR program has become a template for legislation in other countries that seek to enhance the innovat...Lasīt vairāk
The chapters in this book represents foundational research for a nature versus nurture discussion as it relates to innovative behavior, especially a discussion that considers the innovative behavior within and among entrepreneurial organizations....Lasīt vairāk
In this insightful book, Albert N. Link offers a perceptive explanation as to why the U.S. public sector is involved in technology transfer, and how the institutions that support technology transfer have become cornerstones of U.S. economic growth an...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the search process for knowledge used by entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms in pursuit of new opportunities and presents empirical evidence about the sources of knowledge that entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms actually use to all...Lasīt vairāk
While much has been written about the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program from both an institutional and a policy perspective, there remains a conspicuous void of general information about firms and research projects that are funded...Lasīt vairāk
The U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program: An Assessment and an Evaluation of the Program is intended to expand the National Academies report and set a stage for more in depth studies in the future of the STTR program....Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first systematic study of measurement activity at a national metrology laboratory, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Metrology is the study of me...Lasīt vairāk
The chapters in this book represents foundational research for a nature versus nurture discussion as it relates to innovative behavior, especially a discussion that considers the innovative behavior within and among entrepreneurial organizations....Lasīt vairāk
Written by a plethora of expert contributors from a range of institutions, the Handbook of Technology Transfer provides an engaging deep-dive review of technology transfer as a complex and dynamic process, applying different mechanisms charact...Lasīt vairāk
This timely book argues that the overcrowding of national parks in the United States represents a social problem in need of public sector action and a policy solution, as no systematic means to address this problem has been implemented either nation...Lasīt vairāk
Focuses on the returns to US public-sector investments in R&D and the accompanying new empirical analysis relates specifically to the returns to public-sector R&D expenditures in US Federally Funded Research and Development Centers....Lasīt vairāk
Defines public sector entrepreneurship in terms of innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity by transforming a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creativ...Lasīt vairāk
Reflects the respect, affection and high esteem that his colleagues held for Mike Wright. This volume presents a collection of reflections paying tribute to him, as a scholar, as an academic leader and scholarly innovator, and as a special person....Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses technology policy and innovation policy from an international perspective, with a particular emphasis on the policies of the United States and the United Kingdom. The importance of these policy areas, as well as their relationship...Lasīt vairāk
Metrology is the study of measurement science. Although classical economists have emphasized the importance of measurement per se, the majority of economics-based writings on the topic have taken the form of government reports related to the activit...Lasīt vairāk
