The growth of small high-tech firms: destinies and destinations of Innovation Centre `graduates'

Authors: Reid, Stuart¹; Garnsey, Elizabeth²

Source: New Technology, Work and Employment, Volume 12, Number 2, September 1997 , pp. 84-90(7)

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Abstract:

Considerable attention has been paid in recent years to the activity of innovation or technology centres and to their role in nurturing small firms. There is relatively little systematic evidence on the survival and performance of such firms, either during or after their tenancy of these centres. This article reports the preliminary findings of a survey of over fifty companies which `graduated' from St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge over the first eight years of its existence.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-005X.00026

Affiliations: 1: Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge, 2: Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge and Cambridge University Department of Engineering

Publication date: 1997-09-01