Machine derived contents note: Part One: Introduction -- Placing the Contributions in Context - R Oakey -- Part Two: Entrepreneurship And Innovation Management -- The Changing Nature of the Innovation Process - R Rothwell -- Implications for SMEs -- New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) and Interorganisation Networks - G J Stockport and A P Kakabadse -- Developing a Conceptual Framework -- Client Communication and Innovative Efficiency in US and UK Biotechnology Companies - D J Bower and E Whittaker -- Taxonomy of Management Attitudes towards Bootlegging, Uncertainty - P Ugsdorfer -- Sources of Technological Innovative Ideas and Their Significance for Commercial Outcomes in Small Companies - S Caird -- Part Three: Finance -- Banking and New Technology-Based Small Firms - T Philpott -- A Study of Information Exchanges in the Financing Relationship -- The Growth and the Funding Mechanisms of New Technology-Based Firms - A Lumme, I Kauranen and E Autio -- A Comparative Study between the United Kingdom and Finland -- Comparative European Practices in the Finance of New Technology Entrepreneurs - D Deakins and T Philpott -- United Kingdom, Germany and Holland -- The Role of Informal and Formal Sources of Venture Capital in the Financing of Technology-Based SMEs in the United Kingdom - C Mason and R Harrison. -- Part Four: Intellectual Property -- Flexible Specialisation on a Global Basis and the Protection of Intellectual Property - E Garnsey and M Wilkinson -- A Problematic Case -- The Impact of Institutional Intellectual Property Policy on the Propensity of Individual UK Universities to Incubate NTBFs - K A Harvey -- Technology and Intellectual Property Strategies of Taiwan's Semiconductor Firms - J-T Chiang -- Implications for International Product Life Cycle Model -- Part Five: Policy -- Technology Policies and Small Firms - J S Metcalfe -- An Evolutionary Perspective -- How NTBFs Acquire, Accumulate and Transfer Technology - M Laranja -- Implications for Catching-Up Policies of Less Developed Countries such as Portugal -- The Role of Science and Technology Parks in NTBF Development - J Hauschildt and R Steinkhler -- Policies and Founder Characteristics of New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) - M J Manimala -- A Comparison between British and Indian Firms -- Regional Influences and Policy in New Technology-Based Firm Creation and Growth - D Keeble
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Papers presented at the annual International High Technology Small Firms Conference, held at Manchester Business School
Vol. 1 unnumbered
Vols. <3- >: edited by Ray Oakey and Syeda-Masooda Mukhtar
