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1 online resource |
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Risk & Innovation; Copyright; Preface; Contents; RISK & INNOVATION; 1 Executive Summary ; INTRODUCTION; THE ROLES OF TECHNOLOGICAL START-UPS AND SMALL INNOVATIVE COMPANIES IN THE U.S. ECONOMY; OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL TECHNOLOGY-ORIENTED COMPANIES; HOW GOVERNMENTS CAN NURTURE SMALL COMPANIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATORS; 2 Introduction ; THE STUDY APPROACH; DEFINITIONS AND POLICY QUESTIONS; THE STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT; 3 The Roles of Technological Start-Ups and Small Innovative Companies in the U.S. Economy ; COMPARING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SMALL TECHNOLOGY-ORIENTED COMPANIES |
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Advanced Displays and Visual SystemsImplantable and Surgical Medical Devices; Software; Environmental Testing Services; Network Services and Access Devices; Outdoor Sporting Goods; Summary Comparison; CONCLUSIONS; 4 Opportunities for Small Technology-Oriented Companies ; HOW THE MARKET DETERMINES OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS; Fragmented, Technically Dynamic, and Rapidly Growing Markets; Low Barriers to Entry; An Adequate Technical and Business Infrastructure; Good Access To Potential Customers; Availability of Financing; A Culture (Recent History) of Entrepreneurship; Characteristic Risks |
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THE LARGE-COMPANY ROLETHE IMPORTANCE OF GEOGRAPHY; Regional Sources of Entrepreneurs and Ideas; Factors Affecting the Start-ups in a Region; Factors Affecting the Ability of a Company to Grow in a Region; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; 5 How Governments Can Nurture Small Companies and Technological Innovators ; FEDERAL POLICIES: SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE; FEDERAL POLICIES: TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES; FEDERAL PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT SMALL HIGH-TECH COMPANIES; STATE AND REGIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS; THE NATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT; UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICYMAKING |
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Medical Devices: Innovation as an Investment DecisionEnvironmental Testing Labs: Created and Constrained by Environmental Regulation; Networks: Evolution of Regulatory Schemes; IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY; Appendix What We Know About Small Business in America ; DEFINITIONS; THE JOB CREATION DEBATE; INNOVATION IN SMALL COMPANIES; OTHER AREAS OF COMPARISON BETWEEN LARGE AND SMALL FIRMS; Wages; Benefits; Job Security; Training; Unionization; Political Resources; Influence; Intangibles; THE DATA ON SMALL HIGH-TECH COMPANIES; Biographies of Committee Members |
| Summary |
Smaller, technically-oriented companies often assume types of risk (and an amount of risk) that is not often tolerated by large companies. In the United States both consumers and companies depend on smaller, high-tech companies to explore the commercial application of technology in potential, emerging, and small markets. This book, through comparison of six industries in which small companies play a critical role, explores the principal economic function of small, high-tech companies--to probe, explore, and sometimes develop the frontiers of the U.S. economy in search of unrecognized or otherwise ignored opportunities for economic growth and development |
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English |
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High technology industries -- United States
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Small business -- United States
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Risk -- United States
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High technology industries
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Risk
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Small business
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1280210672 |
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9781280210679 |
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0309053765 |
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9780309053761 |
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