LEADER 02775nam0 22003373i 450 001 VAN00086072 005 20240806100636.105 010 $a02-620-1113-1 100 $a20111110d1990 |0itac50 ba 101 $aeng 102 $aUS 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aInnovation and small firms$fZoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch 210 $aCambridge [etc.]$cThe MIT Press$d1990 215 $aX, 212 p.$d24 cm 330 $aUtilizing a unique data set, Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch provide a rich empirical analysis of the increased importance of small firms in generating technological innovations and their growing contribution to the U.S. economy. They identify the contributions made by both small and large firms to the innovative process and the manner in which market structure, and the firm-size distribution in particular, responds to technological change. The authors' analysis relies on traditional theories of industrial organization and tests existing hypotheses, many of them previously untested due to data constraints. Innovation and Small Firms brings together two large data bases recently released by the U. S. Small Business Administration - one directly measuring innovative activity for large and small firms, the other providing a detailed census of economic activity for all manufacturing firms and plants across a broad spectrum of industries. Acs and Audretsch describe and evaluate the data bases in the context of the literature on innovation, market structure, and firm size. They present their findings on the presence of small firms, small-firm entry in manufacturing, small-firm growth and flexible technology, and mobility and firm size. They compare static and dynamic measures of small-firm viability and address the relationships between R&D, innovation, and productivity, and analyze the interaction between technological regimes and the role of government in innovation. 620 $dCambridge$3VANL000024 700 1$aAcs$bZoltan J.$3VANV070580$089013 701 1$aAudretsch$bDavid B.$3VANV070581$0437590 712 $aMIT $3VANV111700$4650 790 1$aAcs, Z.J.$zAcs, Zoltan J.$3VANV228094 790 1$aAcs, Z. J.$zAcs, Zoltan J.$3VANV228095 790 1$aAudretsch, D. B.$zAudretsch, David B.$3VANV204575 790 1$aAudretsch, D.B.$zAudretsch, David B.$3VANV204576 790 1$aAudretsch, David Bruce$zAudretsch, David B.$3VANV235496 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20241108$gRICA 899 $aBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA$1IT-CE0106$2VAN03 912 $aVAN00086072 950 $aBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA$d03PREST IIAd29 $e03 29815 20111110 996 $aInnovation and small firms$964308 997 $aUNICAMPANIA