This study explores the patterns of growth, acquisition and failure amongst a sample of UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) over the period 1997-2002 using the 1997 panel data collected by the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge University. The research explores the determinants...

This paper analyses the paths of technology development among regions with heterogeneous economic and technological characteristics, focusing on the case of China. It finds that intra-national technology transfer, that is, the technology transfer from technologically advanced provinces to less...