Download or read book Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms written by Albert N. Link and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the impacts of the U.S. publicly-funded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme's funding on the overall employment growth of SBIR-award recipient firms. Finds that, on average, the overall employment effects associated with the SBIR programme are large absolutely and relative to dollars of funding, but these effects are, in general, not statistically significant.