Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Small Business Innovation Research Program
  • 3 Geography and Innovation: The Role of Knowledge Spillovers and Agglomeration
  • 4 Evaluating Innovative Activity
  • 5 Metropolitan SBIR Activity in the 1990s
  • 6 Agency Effects in Federally Funded Innovation
  • 7 Metropolitan Patent Activity in the 1990s
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Industries Comprising the High Technology Sector
  • Appendix B: Geographic Distribution of Innovation and Indicators of the Technological Infrastructure in 1990-95
  • Appendix C: SBIR Phase II Awards by Metropolitan Area
  • Appendix D: Supplemental Evidence of Funding Agency Effects
  • Appendix E: Linking Standard Industrial Classifications to Patent Classifications
  • Appendix F: Utility Patents by Metropolitan Area
  • Notes
  • References.