Innovative Activity in Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business Evide
This volume examines the involvement of minority- or women-owned businesses in technology-based research, with particular focus on the differences in research outcomes in achieving commercialization. Specifically, the authors empirically investigate the c
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SpringerBriefs in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Series Editors David B. Audretsch School of Public & Environmental Affair, Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA Albert N. Link Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC, USA
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Albert N. Link • Laura T. R. Morrison
Innovative Activity in Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business Evidence from the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program
Albert N. Link Department of Economics University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC, USA
Laura T. R. Morrison Innovation Research Group RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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Preface
Small businesses are the growth engine of the US innovation economy, creating jobs and growing economic output through research that leads to the commercialization of innovative products and services. Investments in fundamental science and technology research are thus an important building block of innovation. Closely related are investments in human capital through Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. Such investments enrich the human capital of a nation’s work
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