Abstract
Small and medium-sized enterprises have not only in the Federal Republic of Germany been the source of several strategies of economic development and innovation policy for some time. The majority of these measures aims at revealing the potential strength of small and medium-sized enterprises in the innovation process by eliminating particular bottlenecks in the development and other problems of these enterprises which large enterprises do not have. Since 1983, the instrument of innovation centres for a specific promotion of a part of the small and medium-sized enterprises, namely, the new technology-based firms, has been applied also in the Federal Republic. This article investigates to what extent the meanwhile nearly 70 innovation centres could have a positive influence on the development of technology-based small firms. The empirical basis of the analysis consists of data collected in 31 innovation centres and 177 of the enterprises located there.
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