Developing historical 50-state indices of innovation capacity and commercialization capacity

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-123

  Hall, Jeremy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercialization capacity; Index; Innovation capacity; Measurement; State performance

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIALIZATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; INNOVATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 38749132502     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: 15523543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891242406298128     Document Type: Article

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