High Technology Small Firms: Their Potential for Rapid Industrial Growth
研究了1980年代英国电子、科学仪器和生物技术行业的高科技小企业，发现其就业增长和自筹资金增长表现平平，并指出外部工业环境不佳是导致企业内省融资倾向的原因，呼吁政府更积极地扶持这类企业。
DR. RAY OAKEY IS A SENIOR LECTURER at Heriot-Watt University Business School, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is currently conducting wide ranging research into the problems of industrial innovation and growth in large and small firms in the United Kingdom and hungary. This paper examines the growth performance of British high-technology small firms throughout the 1980s. The analysis is divided between a consideration of employment growth, and of the extent ot which firms rely on self-financed growth, in samples of firms in the electronics, scientific instruments and boitechnologh sectors. It is noted that the observed growth, in both individual firms and in aggregate, has been unimpressive. It is argued that a generally high livel of observed introspection with regard to funding in survey firms is likely to be partly caused by a poor external industrial environment for the encouragement of small firm innovation. consequently, the paper concludes by arguing for a more 0proactive government approach to the encouragement of high-technology small firms.