A collection of the best papers presented at the High Technology Small Firm (HTSF) Conference held in the UK at Manchester Business School in June 2007. It includes chapters that are devoted to the critical problems of HTSF financing, comprising two contributions from the UK and from Sweden, the Irish Republic, Italy, and Belgium.

Contributors. Chapter 1 Introduction. Chapter 2 Defining University Spin-Offs. Chapter 3 Entrepreneurial-Innovative University Services: A Way to Integrate in the University's Third Mission. Chapter 4 Linking Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: A Study of Swedish Schools of Entrepreneurship. Chapter 5 How Useful is the Stage Model Theory in Explaining the Capital Structure of Venture Capital-Backed and Non-Venture Capital-Backed Firms?. Chapter 6 Who You are and What You do: The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital in the Demand and Supply of External Finance of High-Tech Start-Ups. Chapter 7 Financing New Ventures: Attitudes Towards Public Innovation Support. Chapter 8 Small Firm Expectations from Acquisition in the ICT Industry: A Conceptual Framework for Stakeholder Analysis. Chapter 9 Entrepreneurs’ Communicative Behaviour in Technology-Based versus Service-Based Businesses — A Resource Dependence Perspective. Chapter 10 Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and the Voice-of-the-Consumer. Chapter 11 Going Public: A Growth Opportunity for ‘Research-Intensive’ Companies. Chapter 12 What are High-Technology Firms and What Drives Their Performance?. Chapter 13 Implementing Open Innovation: Challenges in Linking Strategic and Operational Factors for Large Firms Working with HTSFs. Chapter 14 Forms of Market Orientation in French Young High-Technology Firms: A Typology. New Technology-based Firms in the New Millennium. New Technology-based Firms in the New Millennium. Copyright page.