ISBN: 3790814679
TITEL: Technology, Innovation and Policy, Vol. 14
AUTHOR: Pfirrmann/Walter
TOC:

Introduction
Oliver Pfirrmann, Gnter H. Walter 1
WESTERN EXPERIENCE AND GENERAL QUESTIONS
Small Firms and Entrepreneurship: The Western Experience
David B. Audretsch 15
Private Ownership and Markets: Limits to Privatisation in the Transition Process
Walter Heering, Oliver Pfirrmann 47
Industrial Modernisation in Post-Socialist Economies: Primary Endogenous and Elites Oriented Modernisation as a Socio-Economically Oriented Strategic Concept
Fuad Kandil, Gnter H. Walter 73
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: COUNTRY STUDIES Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Poland
Krzysztof B. Matusiak 97
Small Businesses in Russia
Natalia Kovaleva 123
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Hungary
Friederike Welter 139
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Yugoslavia: A Driving Force in the Catching-Up Process
Djuro Kutlaca 157
SME Development in the Republic of Slovenia
Viljenka Godina 179
Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Romania
Ioan Piturescu 193
SELECTED ASPECTS OF SMALL FIRMS ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY
Supporting Innovation Through Institution Building in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Visions and Realities
Slavo Radosevic, Gnter H. Walter 213
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Firms: A Case for Technology Centres and Science Parks in the Transition Process?
Walter Heering 237
Regional Innovation Capacities and Economic Transition: The Example of West Transdanubia
Emmanuel Muller, Andrea Zenker, Tibor Dry 251
From Old to New, from Big to Small? - Transformation of Firm Behaviour in Declining Regions in West and East
Michael Steiner 273
Possible Strategies and Policy Steps for an Innovation Oriented Modernisation
Gnter H. Walter 287
SUMMARY AND ISSUES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
Summary and Outlook
Oliver Pfirrmann 301
Contributors 319
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