Innovation Can Make Rural Manufacturers More Resilient

Timothy Wojan

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. October 2018, issue 09

Abstract: Does the degree of innovation make a difference in the survival of rural manufacturers? To answer this question, ERS researchers examined a set of manufacturing plants that were surveyed in 1996 and again in 2013. Compared to a representative sample of all rural manufacturing plants, the long-lived plants were more likely to be substantive innovators and less likely to be non-innovators.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302658

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