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Small Key Tech-Knowledge Firms in Canada: Their Innovation Potential, Structure, and Spatial Adaptation

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There is greater awareness among scholars that innovative change is vital to the economic progress of firms and regions. While such change has previously been attributed to large companies (Freeman 1971, 1974), small firms have in fact developed half the new technology in several countries (Acs and Audretsch 1988). In this study, such firms are thought to be vital to the economic progress of economies, as envisioned by Schumpeter (1939), and those that are actively patenting new technology are considered to be key technology firms.

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Ceh, B. (2002). Small Key Tech-Knowledge Firms in Canada: Their Innovation Potential, Structure, and Spatial Adaptation. In: Acs, Z.J., de Groot, H.L.F., Nijkamp, P. (eds) The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24823-1_15

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