<title>Abstract</title> Over many years government interest has persisted in the general funding problems of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This concern has often concentrated on capital market failure in particular niche areas of the funding market. This paper has resulted from a specific interest...

Over the past 15 years, a crucial part of the U.K. Government's agenda has been to develop industrial and innovation policies in support of entrepreneurship and the creation of new businesses. They included significant investment in an incubator fund, increased funding for the exploitation of...

There is a growing body of literature concerning the impact of clustering on the economic efficiency of high technology small firm operation. By considering high technology firms within the emerging nonbroadcast visual communications (NBVC) sector, this paper seeks to explore business linkage...

This paper investigates the nature of academic entrepreneurial engagement in a resource constrained environment. In addition to context-specific contributions, the paper adds originality to the academic entrepreneurship literature by discussing diversification strategies adopted by academic...