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The fountain of knowledge: an epistemological perspective on the growth of U.S. SBIR-funded firms

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  • David B. Audretsch

    (Indiana University)

  • Albert N. Link

    (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

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The premise of this paper is that a basis for firms receiving Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) research awards to develop commercializable technologies is not only their proposed creative ideas but also their endowment of attendant knowledge necessary to develop the technology being proposed. Based on this premise, we propose that those firms that have higher growth rates attributable to their SBIR awards are also those firms that are more creative and have more knowledge endowments. Empirically, we quantify a firms creativity and its sources of research knowledge in terms of its past experiences, and we find that firms with more technical experience and sector experience are those that have realized higher growth rates from their SBIR-funded research.

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  • David B. Audretsch & Albert N. Link, 2019. "The fountain of knowledge: an epistemological perspective on the growth of U.S. SBIR-funded firms," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 15(4), pages 1103-1113, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:intemj:v:15:y:2019:i:4:d:10.1007_s11365-019-00596-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s11365-019-00596-3
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    Keywords

    Knowledge; Creativity; Entrepreneurship; SBIR program; Technology;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy

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