Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

The development of the machine tool industry what stimulates invention? - a review of the literature innovation potential - a structured inquiry factors influencing the development of innovation potential summary and implications. Appendices: graphical tests for heteroskedasticity machine tool patent activity of the top 25 metropolitan areas ranked by innovation potential breaking the correlation among the IDK variables - results of including only one IDK variable regions included in the OLS models of Table 5.12.