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Small technology companies (STCs) are a significant component of advanced economies. They are a kind of a bridge between R&D and industry, stimulating transfer of new solutions from research laboratories to the economy. Scientists setting up their own STCs or co-operating with the existing entities have a unique opportunity to verify market applicability of their research projects’ results. STCs contribute to a rise in the level of innovativeness of the national economy. Close cooperation between STCs and the R&D sector may be a positive pattern to be followed by larger entities. This article is to present basic characteristics of STCs operating in the Łódź agglomeration, including the scale of the phenomenon, the composition of STCs by industry and the structure of sales revenues by market. The article also tackles the issues of STC financing and barriers to co-operation with financial institutions. Later on, the article also covers issues concerning STCs’ co-operation with other entities, including the scope of co-operation with other businesses, dominating relationships between STCs and other firms, as well as main barriers to co-operation between STCs operating in the same industry.
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In advanced economies factors limiting development opportunities of small high-technology firms (SHTFs) are an important and broadly documented area of research. Results of research projects in this field provide a significant reason for formulating recommendations for economic policy instruments of advanced economies oriented towards supporting development of this kind of economic entities. It should also be pointed out that the main instruments of supporting SHTFs’ development in advanced economies are oriented towards reduction of adverse consequences of basic factors restraining development opportunities of SHTFs in those countries. The results of analyses of factors limiting development opportunities of small high-technology firms in the Łódź agglomeration presented in this article indicate that the market barrier linked to insufficient demand for highly innovative products offered by SHTFs is the most significant factor in this respect. The remaining ones include: the barrier resulting from the government policy and the financial barrier.
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The article is an attempt of specifying if and to what extent the impact of barriers to development of small technology-based firms (STBF) depends on the level of technological advancement of these entities. The typology of barriers to development adopted in this study covers 12 kinds of barriers. The classification of industry by the degree of technological advancement, as proposed by the OECD, has been adopted as a criterion for selection of economic entities. It can be seen from the analysis of gathered empirical data that the information barrier is the one whose impact is to the highest extent associated with the degree of technological advancement. It is followed by the infrastructure barrier and the financial barrier.
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