The Geography of Small Firm Innovation (International Studies in Entrepreneurship)

by Grant Black (Author)

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  2005

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  Jaffe (1989) made a significant contribution to estimating the knowledge production function when he established a relationship between patent activity and R&D activity at the state level. Feldman's work also differentiated by firm size and showed that knowledge spillovers from universities play a key role as sources of knowledge for small firms.