Management of Innovation in Small High Technology Firms, The - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861876725 ISBN 13: 9780861876723

Synopsis

The encouragement of the birth and growth of high technology small firms is a major goal of both national and regional government planning agencies. However, while there is broad agreement on the increasing value of this type of small firm to future industrial expansion beyond the year 2000, there is little hard evidence on which to base measures to encourage the rate of new firm formation and subsequent growth. This book aids policy prescription by providing a detailed study of regional variations in the management of innovation in high technology small firms. The empirical research considers all the major management factors that are inputs to the innovation process through a time-series study of innovation in British and American high technology small firms. In conclusion, results of this study form the basis of a radical new policy approach to the promotion of growth in high technology small firms.

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Synopsis

This book is an examination of entrepreneurship and management at 143 small high technology instruments and electronics firms in California, south-east England and Scotland over a 5 year period. The emphasis is on how internal and external resources affect the creation of technological innovation covering aspects such as the management of labour, the organization of market and sales linkages and the generation of internal and external technical information.

About the Author

RAYMOND OAKEY has been a lecturer at the Department of Business Organization, Heriot-Watt University since 1985.ROY ROTHWELL is Senior Research Fellow of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.SARAH COOPER is a research associate at the Department of Business Organization at Heriot-Watt University.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861876725
• ISBN 13: 9780861876723
• Binding: Hardcover