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

New Technology-Based Firms in the 1990s: Volume One is a contemporary, international 'state of the art' view of research in these areas. It will be essential reading for those who have an interest in the innovation and growth problems of high-technology small firms in the mid-1990s. Both the conference from which this book emanates and this first volume of an annual series of books on the evolving theme of high-technology small firm research, are designed to publicize the high-quality work taking place in this academic area. A further intention is to put the development problems of high-technology small firms before an audience wider than the one that attended the original conference. Thus, this

book will not only be of interest to academics, but will also provide practical insights to high-technology small firms management, and to all those at local and national levels within developed economies concerned with the creation and development of high-technology small firms.