How individuals and communities can profit from local investing. In the wake of the financial crisis, investors are faced with a stark choice: entrust their hard-earned dollars to the Wall Street casino, or settle for anemic interest rates on savings, bonds, and CDs. Meanwhile, small businesses...

Preface -- Acknowledgment -- SME and SME Board of China’s Capital Market -- What Can Batteries Power? -- A Leading Miner in "Urban Mining" -- A Pioneer: Moving towards New Agriculture.- The King of Mobile Game -- You Only Need to Dial One Number -- The Bird of the First Light -- Has the Era of...

Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more innovation, a better...