Background
Audretsch, David Bruce was born on November 15, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Leo Martin and Helen (Bishop) Audretsch.
( Utilizing a unique data set, Zoltan Acs and David Audre...)
Utilizing a unique data set, Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch provide a rich empirical analysis of the increased importance of small firms in generating technological innovations and their growing contribution to the U.S. economy. They identify the contributions made by both small and large firms to the innovative process and the manner in which market structure, and the firm-size distribution in particular, responds to technological change. The authors' analysis relies on traditional theories of industrial organization and tests existing hypotheses, many of them previously untested due to data constraints.Innovation and Small Firms brings together two large data bases recently released by the U. S. Small Business Administration - one directly measuring innovative activity for large and small firms, the other providing a detailed census of economic activity for all manufacturing firms and plants across a broad spectrum of industries.Acs and Audretsch describe and evaluate the data bases in the context of the literature on innovation, market structure, and firm size. They present their findings on the presence of small firms, small-firm entry in manufacturing, small-firm growth and flexible technology, and mobility and firm size. They compare static and dynamic measures of small-firm viability and address the relationships between R&D, innovation, and productivity, and analyze the interaction between technological regimes and the role of government in innovation.Zoltan Acs is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Merrick School of Business, the University of Baltimore. David Audretsch is a Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung in West Berlin.
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Audretsch, David Bruce was born on November 15, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Leo Martin and Helen (Bishop) Audretsch.
Bachelor, Drew U., l976; Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, l980.
Assistant professor economics, Middlebury (Vermont) College, l980-87; research fellow, Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin, l985-. Consultant Vermont Bar Association, l982-83, United States International Trade Commission, Washington, l984, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, l986-.
( Utilizing a unique data set, Zoltan Acs and David Audre...)
Member American Economics Association, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, International Council for Small Business, Joseph Schumpeterian Society.
Married Joanne Denise Godin, July 25,1989.