Technology-Based Firms in the Innovation Process : Management, Financing and Regional Networks /

Technology-based firms contribute to dynamic competition, ensure product variety, close market gaps and promote job creation. Their development is impeded by a difficult access to capital, high R & D costs and management deficits. The book analyses their chances and risks in the innovation proce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koschatzky, Knut
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 1997.
Series:Technology, Innovation and Policy, Series of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) ; 5.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Technology-Based Firms in the Innovation Process: Object of Theory and Research
  • The Management of Technology-Based Firms: Development Problems of Small Technology-Based Firms and Ways of Overcoming Them
  • Marketing in New Technology-Based Firms
  • Crises of New Technology-Based Firms
  • Consulting for New Technology-Based Firms
  • The Financing of Technology-Based Firms: The Promotion of New Technology-Based Firms in Germany
  • The Financing of New Technology-Based Firms
  • The Venture Capital Market in Germany
  • Regional Networks for Technology-Based Firms: Innovative Regional Development Concepts and Technology-Based Firms
  • Innovation Networks for Small Enterprises
  • Technology and Incubator Centres as an Instrument of Regional Economic Promotion
  • Methods for Ascertaining Firms' Needs for Innovation Services
  • The Adaption of German Experiences to Building Up Innovation Networks in Central and Eastern Europe.