The terms entrepreneur and entrepreneurship take on a very specific and somewhat narrow meaning with regard to the connection between entrepreneurship and technology policy. In the context of this volume, entrepreneurship is defined to refer to the innovative and risk taking activities that are specific to small firms.
Acknowledgements
Introduction Albert N. Link
PART I GOVERNMENT'S DIRECT SUPPORT OF R&D
1. Ian Moore and Elizabeth Garnsey (1993), 'Funding for Innovation in Small Firms: The Role of Government
2. Josh Lerner (1999), 'The Government as Venture Capitalist: The Long-Run Impact of the SBIR Program
3. Scott J. Wallsten (2000), 'The Effects of Government-Industry R&D Programs on Private R&D: The Case of the Small Business Innovation Research Program
4. David B. Audretsch, Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2002), 'Public/Private Technology Partnerships: Evaluating SBIR-Supported Research
5. David B. Audretsch (2003), 'Standing on the Shoulders of Midgets: The U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)
PART II GOVERNMENT'S LEVERAGING OF R&D
6. Renata Lèbre La Rovere (1998), 'Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and IT Diffusion Policies in Europe
7. Erik Brouwer and Alfred Kleinknecht (1999), 'Innovative Output, and a Firms Propensity to Patent. An Exploration of CIS Micro Data
8. G. Bruce Hartmann and John Masten (2000), 'Profiles of State Technological Transfer Structure and Its Impact on Small Manufacturers
9. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2001), 'Public/Private Partnerships: Stimulating Competition in a Dynamic Market
10. David North, David Smallbone and Ian Vickers (2001), 'Public Sector Support for Innovating SMEs
11. Anthony Arundel (2001), 'The Relative Effectiveness of Patents and Secrecy for Appropriation
12. Maryann P. Feldman and Maryellen R. Kelley (2003), 'Leveraging Research and Development: Assessing the Impact of the U.S. Advanced Technology Program
13. Benoît Leleux and Bernard Surlemont (2003), 'Public Versus Private Venture Capital: Seeding or Crowding Out? A Pan-European Analysis
PART III GOVERNMENT'S INFRASTRUCTURE POLICIES
14. Anne-Marie Maculan and Deborah Moraes Zouain (1999), 'Changes in Brazilian Public R&D Institutions Management: The National Institute of Technology Case-Study
15. Ronald S. Jarmin (1999), 'Evaluating the Impact of Manufacturing Extension on Productivity Growth
16. Philip Shapira (2001), 'US Manufacturing Extension Partnerships: Technology Policy Reinvented?
17. Spyros Arvanitis, Heinz Hollenstein and Stephan Lenz (2002), 'The Effectiveness of Government Promotion of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT): An Economic Analysis Based on Swiss Micro Data
18. Dennis Patrick Leyden and Albert N. Link (2004), 'Transmission of Risk-Averse Behavior in Small Firms
PART IV KNOWLEDGE FLOWS FROM UNIVERSITIES AND LABORATORIES
19. Jérôme Doutriaux (1987), 'Growth Pattern of Academic Entrepreneurial Firms
20. Magnus Klofsten, Dylan Jones-Evans and Carina Schärberg (1999), 'Growing the Linköping Technopole - A Longitudinal Study of Triple Helix Development in Sweden
21. Albert N. Link and John Rees (1990), 'Firm Size, University Based Research, and the Returns to R&D
22. Wesley M. Cohen, Richard R. Nelson and John P. Walsh (2002), 'Links and Impacts: The Influence of Public Research on Industrial R&D
23. Bronwyn H. Hall, Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2003), 'Universities as Research Partners
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