Entrepreneurship and Technology Policy Book

1	Funding for innovation in small firms : the role of government	3
2	The government as venture capitalist : the long-run impact of the SBIR program	16
3	The effects of government-industry R&D programs on private R&D : the case of the small business innovation research program	50
4	Public/private technology partnerships : evaluating SBIR-supported research	69
5	Standing on the shoulders of midgets : the U.S. small business innovation research program (SBIR)	83
6	Small and medium-sized enterprises and IT diffusion policies in Europe	93
7	Innovative output, and a firm's propensity to patent : an exploration of CIS micro data	102
8	Profiles of state technological transfer structure and its impact on small manufacturers	112
9	Public/private partnerships : stimulating competition in a dynamic market	118
10	Public sector support for innovating SMEs	150
11	The relative effectiveness of patents and secrecy for appropriation	165
12	Leveraging research and development : assessing the impact of the U.S. advanced technology program	179
13	Public versus private venture capital : seeding or crowding out? : a Pan-European analysis	192
14	Changes in Brazilian public R & D institutions management : the National Institute of Technology case-study	219
15	Evaluating the impact of manufacturing extension on productivity growth	228
16	US manufacturing extension partnerships : technology policy reinvented?	249
17	The effectiveness of government promotion of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) : an economic analysis based on Swiss micro data	265
18	Transmission of risk-averse behavior in small firms	285
19	Growth pattern of academic entrepreneurial firms	293
20	Growing the Linkoping Technopole - a longitudinal study of triple helix development in Sweden	306
21	Firm size, university based research, and the returns to R&D	320
22	Links and impacts : the influence of public research on industrial R&D	327
23	Universities as research partners	350