Employment growth from public support of innovation in small firms / Albert N. Link, John T. Scott.

Author/creator Link, Albert N.
Other author Scott, John T., 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoKalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2012.
Descriptionxi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The prevailing economic stage ; An innovation-based economic growth strategy ; Government's role in innovation ; An overview of the book -- Small business innovation research program : Evolution of a policy emphasis on innovation in small firms ; The creation of the SBIR program ; Economic role of the SBIR program ; Employment growth and the SBIR program -- National Research Council database : Background on the database ; Variables in the database ; Issues of sample selection bias ; Cross-agency analyses ; Conducting research in the absence of SBIR funding ; Project-specific employment growth from SBIR awards -- Project-specific employment effects from SBIR awards : Descriptive statistics on retained employees ; Interpretation of the findings ; Static model of retained employees -- Quantifying long-run employment growth from SBIR funding : Counterfactual model of employment growth ; Testable hypotheses ; Econometric results ; Interpretation of the findings -- Factors related to employment growth from SBIR funding : Construction of new summary variables ; Explanatory variables and the estimated effects ; Interpretation of the findings -- The exploitation of SBIR-induced intellectual capital and employment growth : Interpretation of the descriptive statistics.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index.
LCCN 2011049011
ISBN9780880993852 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0880993855 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780880993869 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0880993863 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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