Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89268 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2005/08
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
This paper focuses on European small- medium serial innovators at the beginning of the 1990s and provides an empirical basis to answer the following questions: who are the upstream specialized small- medium technology producers? How are they distributed across countries? Are there technologies in which they show a relative advantage? By focusing on firms' history, activities, and the description of events obtained by different data sources, we also investigates if technology based SMEs choose to implement a strategy based on the commercialisation of their technologies or if they invest in the complementary assets of production, marketing and distribution becoming micro-chandlerian firms. Through this analysis we are able to propose a taxonomy of technology based SMEs' strategies in the market for technology, in the market for embedded technologies and in the market for products.
Subjects: 
SMEs
Technology Strategies
Licensing
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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