New Technology-Based Firms in the 1990s

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION/Placing the Contributions in Context/PART TWO: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT/The Changing Nature of the Innovation Process/Implications for SMEs/New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) and Interorganisation Networks/Developing a Conceptual Framework/Client Communication and Innovative Efficiency in US and UK Biotechnology Companies/Taxonomy of Management Attitudes towards Bootlegging Uncertainty/Sources of Technological Innovative Ideas and Their Significance for Commercial Outcomes in Small Companies/PART THREE: FINANCE/Banking and New Technology-Based Small Firms/A Study of Information Exchanges in the Financing Relationship/The Growth and the Funding Mechanisms of New Technology-Based Firms/A Comparative Study between the United Kingdom and Finland/Comparative European Practices in the Finance of New Technology Entrepreneurs/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/PART FOUR: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/Flexible Specialisation on a Global Basis and the Protection of Intellectual Property/A Problematic Case/The Impact of Institutional Intellectual Property Policy on the Propensity of Individual UK Universities to Incubate NTBFs/Technology and Intellectual Property Strategies of Taiwan's Semiconductor Firms/Implications for International Product Life Cycle Model/PART FIVE: POLICY/Technology Policies and Small Firms/An Evolutionary Perspective/How NTBFs Acquire Accumulate and Transfer Technology/Implications for Catching-Up Policies of Less Developed Countries such as Portugal/The Role of Science and Technology Parks in NTBF Development/Policies and Founder Characteristics of New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs)/A Comparison between British and Indian Firms/Regional Influences and Policy in New Technology-Based Firm Creation and Growth