Introduction / Ray Oakey, Gary Cook -- Understanding patterns and investments in new firms in emerging science and technology-based industries in the UK / Tianjiao Xia, Tim Minshall -- An investigation of the barriers to internationalisation faced by young technology-intensive firms / Hannah Chaplin -- The role of intellectual property in globalizing business models of knowledge-intensive SMEs / Tõnis Mets -- Developing quality in networks : the experience of male and female entrepreneurs in new technology-based ventures / Pauric McGowan, Sarah Cooper, Alison Hampton -- Spatial agglomeration in British broadcasting : the complementarity of cultural and economic insights / Gary Cook, Naresh Pandit -- Business incubators and HTSF development : setting an agenda for further research / Ali Ahmad, Sarah Ingle -- The clustering of software firms around the SAP industrial centre in Germany / Joachim Viehoever -- Business incubators : (how) do they help their tenants? / Tiago Ratinho, Rainer Harms, Aard Groen -- Building a support infrastructure for technology-based businesses : what can emerging economies learn from the Western experience? / Dina Williams -- What can we learn from academic spin-off failures? : insights from five case studies / Sven H. De Cleyn, Johan Braet, Magnus Klofsten -- The university as an entrepreneur : the ingredients for valorization and valorization strategies / Peter van der Sijde ... [et al.] -- The search behaviour of academic start-ups : experiential learning and the role of consultancy and manufacturing activities / Victor Scholten, Dap Hartmann, Paul Trott.

This volume is the latest edition of an international edited book series based on the formation and growth problems of High Technology Small Firms (HTSFs) begun in 1993. This body of work is unique, and maps the evolution of research in this area through almost two decades of academic research and government policy towards a sector that is the key to future prosperity of developed and developing notational economies throughout the world.