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The impact of external knowledge on patent production among SBIR winners
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
highlights the economic significance of the type of external knowledge sourced by a particular firm....
Three essays on location aspects in biotechnology entrepreneurship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
are considerably more conducive in spurring local birth rate than universities and research institutes/hospitals. Given the rise of the entrepreneurial university and its focus on local economic development, Essay 3 analyzes factors affecting academic faculty...
Three essays on the competitiveness of the US corn seed industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation provides an analysis of various aspects of the competitivity of the US corn seed industry. In the first essay I develop a price ...