The Internationalisation of British Start-up Companies in...
Bürgel, Oliver There are 17 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union which play an important role in economic life. Within this subset, increasing recognition is being given to "new technology-based ftrms. " 1 In the literature, different defmitions have been put forward to describe the term new technology-based ftrm (Oakey et a11988, Roberts 1991, Autio 1995, Storey and Tether 1998). Common denominators include that the activi...