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 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.
In this latest Volume, there are three major themes that have emerged from the best papers to be presented at the HTSF Conference held in the United Kingdom at Manchester Business School in
June 2007. A particularly strong six chapters of this Volume are devoted to the critical problems of HTSF financing, comprising two contributions from the United Kingdom, and individual
chapters from Sweden, The Irish Republic, Italy, and Belgium While a further four papers are concerned with aspects of strategic development in HTSFs, a smaller (but no less important) final
group of three papers deal with HTSF marketing problems, often in a ＂born global＂ strategic context.
