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In this chapter, we briefly summarize the literature related to the innovative activity of businesses with different demographic categories of ownership (Link & Strong, 2016). The dominant portion of this literature has focused on gender compared to minority ownership, and we reach that conclusion based on the amount of published research on each topic. Perhaps one explanation for the dominance of gender-related research on innovative activity rests in the fact that there is a paucity of data related to minority ownership and related business activities.

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    Except for Link and Wright (2015) and Andersen et al. (2017), the issue of project failure (i.e., a funded research project is discontinued compared to a funded project that is completed) has not systematically been investigated from an empirical perspective. We do so herein by first reviewing the literature on ownership status and business survival.

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Link, A.N., Morrison, L.T.R. (2019). Background Literature Review. In: Innovative Activity in Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business. SpringerBriefs in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21534-7_2

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