Reviews empirical data related to public policy actions undertaken by European governments to provide support to new technology-based firms (NTBFs) in the 1980s and early 1990s. Five specific policy areas are examined: science parks (often nearby commercial spaces having formal and operational...

This paper outlines an evolutionary theory of adaptive growth based on the twin principles of enterprise and the co-ordinating role of markets. The central organising idea is that economies never grow without simultaneous development. Growth as conventionally understood is a product of...

The concepts of competition and its derivatives, competitiveness and competitive advantage feature as highly on the current development agendas and policy debates of developing countries as they do in the developed world, yet they are sufficiently opaque to make any discussion of the...