The chapters in this book represents foundational research for a nature versus nurture discussion as it relates to innovative behavior, especially a discussion that considers the innovative behavior within and…

The U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program: An Assessment and an Evaluation of the Program is intended to expand the National Academies' report and set a stage for more…

This comprehensive study reviews the literature on technology and economic growth covering historical and theoretical developments such as: new models for measuring productivity; sources of technological knowledge and technological spillovers…

A collection of essays about innovative policy in the knowledge-based economy. It considers elements of an innovation policy: innovation policy and academic research, innovation policy in electronic commerce, and innovation…

This book searches to understand the nature of the relationship, as well as the importance of the relationship, between sources of knowledge and entrepreneurial behavior. The conceptual foundation for our…

In this book, a chronological history of entrepreneurship is presented and analysed by examining the treatment of the subject throughout the history of economic thought, illustrating the tension that often…

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 seeks to understand technology infrastructure as an element of a sector’s technology platform and of a national innovation system. It also examines the processes by which such infrastructure…