Small and Medium-Sized Firms in High-Technology Industries: The Experience of Biotechnology Firms in the United States

Stuart O. Schweitzer and Marco R. Di Tommaso

Chapter 3 in High Technology, Productivity and Networks, 2008, pp 57-70 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Many nations and regions throughout the world are attempting to promote development of high-technology industries. Firms in high-technology industries tend to be small and medium-sized, suggesting that industrial policy toward this sector might optimally be different from policies that would be directed toward firms in other industries and sectors.

Keywords: Small Firm; Large Firm; Venture Capital; Industrial Policy; Intellectual Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230583726_3

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