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Philip Shapira and Stuart Rosenfeld. An Overview of Technology Diffusion Policies and Programs to Enhance the Technological Absorptive Capabilities of Small and Medium Enterprises. Background paper prepared for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. 1996.
David Grayson. Helping Small Businesses: Recent British Experience. Remarks prepared for the Seminar on Industrial Modernization, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, April 24, 1997. London: Business in the Community, April 1997. DRAFT. [ACROBAT *.PDF 173K]
Philip Shapira. Modernizing Small Manufacturers in the United States and Japan: Public Technology Infrastructures and Strategies, in Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP): An International Perspective, pp. 285-334, (M. Teubal, D. Foray, M. Justman, and E. Zuscovitch, Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers (1996). [ACROBAT .PDF 1,574K]
Additional Resources
Small and Medium Enterprise Information of Japan. Web Site: http://www.sme-net.ipa.go.jp/japane.html. Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo.
Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan. Outline of Policies Towards Small and Medium Enterprises. Japan Small Business Corporation. Tokyo.
England's Business Links - Brief. October 1996. [ACROBAT *PDF 118K]