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…

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…

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.

This book focuses on technology and innovation policies from an economic assessment or economic impacts perspective. The analysis, by eminent international scholars, covers policies relevant to countries in Europe and…

Provides a nontechnical reference source of the relevant social science and policy literature on nanotechnology. The authors hope to engender not only a greater appreciation of the economic and social…

Edwin Mansfield was a research pioneer into the economics of R and D and technological change. As appreciation and remembrance for his scholarly contributions, eminent scholars have contributed original papers…

Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of technology-based public institutions, and illustrates these guidelines through case studies conducted at one technology-based public institution, the…

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.