Progress in telecommunications and infrastructure, coupled with liberalization in international organizations, has introduced a number of new competitors to existing SMEs. This book analyzes strategic aspects of SME development that may help to promote growth: high-tech development, productivity...

Based on the empirical analysis of the dependency network in 18 Java projects, we develop a novel model of network growth which considersboth: an attachment mechanism and the addition of new nodes with a heterogeneous distribution of their initial degree, k₀. Empirically we find that the...