This eleventh volume derived from the Annual International High
Technology Small Firms (HTSFs) Conference, and the edited book
series of which it forms part, is a detailed testimony to the
progress of academic research on this specialist, but highly
important, area of industrial activity. In particular, research
from this series is intended to provide a basis for new
"evidence-based" government policy, although governments in many
developed economies have often been seduced by "fads," in
circumstances where policy solutions are crudely adopted without
convincing evidence of their efficacy. None the less, it is most
important for academics, although they may be occasionally ignored,
to continue to pursue independent research of the type contained
within this series in order to provide research-based policy
options, and commentary on the quality of the current policy
environment for HTSFs in different national contexts.
As in the case of previous volumes in this series, the current
collection of papers inform many issues important to policy as
governments seek to promote HTSF formation and growth. In this
volume individual papers are grouped into three main sections;
these are "Theory," "Strategy" and "Clustering and Spin Off Firms."
Regarding Theory, all five papers grouped under this heading are
concerned, either with high technology entrepreneurship in general,
or academic high technology small firm entrepreneurship in
particular, with four of the five papers strongly focussed on
academic entrepreneurial examples. The Strategy section is again
comprised of five papers, which broadly explore how diverse
business ideas are operationalised in terms of strategy.
A longstanding interest in academic spin-offs in this book
series has been more recently re-invigorated by a sudden interest
in clustering which, through the related topics of incubation,
science park formation and sub-regional high technology clustering
has prompted linked research on the formation and growth of HTSFs
in specialist locations, mainly through spin off. In the final
Clustering and Spin Off section, the four individual papers are
either concerned with how "spin offs" can contribute to HTSF
cluster growth in industrial districts, or in the environs of major
core regional universities.
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