The present analysis brings together a series of studies across a spectrum of selected countries in developed Western nations and Eastern Europe to identify the exact role of small firms, and how that role has evolved during the fifteen years preceding the publication of the book in...

It seems to be paradoxical that, at the beginning of the 1990s, when technical change seemed to play an unprecedented role in the U.S. welfare, that small firms emerged as a driving force of the U.S. economy. It is usually assumed that technological change requires the quantities of research and...