New Technology-based Firms in the New Millennium

From the May 2008 manifestation of the annual International High Technology Small Firms Conference, at Enschede, the Netherlands, 13 studies examine entrepreneurship education, enterprise internationalization, and strategies for innovation and growth. Among the topics are enterprise education and the adoption of new technologies within small firms, whether there are any differences between coaching and mentoring, clustering and the internationalization of high technology small firms in film and television, environmental scanning and growth strategy in high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises, a typology for assessing strategic patent management maturity in small and medium Dutch pharmaceutical companies, and manufacturing strategy in start-up companies. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distributing. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)