The formation, relevance and public promotion of new technology-based firms

The Technology Based Sectors in Mexico: An Analysis for the Firm Size and the Production Scale

“…In some of the first approaches Bollinger et al (1983) studied the sectors conformed by the semiconductor, integrated circuits, software, medical equipment and aerospatiale. Kulicke and Krupp (1987) studied the electronic sectors, computers, robotics, measurement equipment and laser manufactures. As it can be seen in this kind of studies, the definition of a technology based sector is based in the leading edge sectors in a specific period of time, but without establishing a consensus over the characteristics of a technology based sector.…”

“…Since the beginnings of the 1980´s, the research on the TBF has taken off, due to factors like innovation, production scale, technological change and their flexibility in the production processes to create aggregate value (Bollinger, Hope and Utterback, 1983;Granstrand, 1998;Autio and Yli-Renko, 1998). An important fact is that the SME firms are in general the main sources of employment and economic growth (Kulicke and Krupp, 1987). The structure of the TBF is composed also by SME firms with the next distribution: 94% Small, 5.5% Medium and 0.5% of Large firms, according to the estimations of Ganotakis and Love (2011).…”

“…Other kind of research remark the instable environment in which the TBF performs (Teixeira and Tavares, 2014;Clarysse, Bruneel and Wright, 2011;Suzuki, Teixeira, Ferreira and Real, 2011;Aspelund, Berg and Skjevdal, 2005;Kollmer and Dowlin, 2004;Granstrand, 1998). Also it has been studied the risk of the technological diversification over the sales (Kulicke and Krupp, 1987;Fontes and Coombs, 2001;Li et al 2012;Onetti, Zucchella, Jones and McDougall, 2012). Other authors made a clear differentiation on the performance of an independent TBF and the University Spin-Off where the last is constituted from the knowledge and support of the University or Research Institute (Ortrin and Vendrell, 2014;Suzuki et al, 2011).…”

“…Nevertheless, it is a lack of research on the impact of these firms in the performance of the technology based sectors. Since 1980 it has been pointed out the importance of the small firm on the performance of the TBF (Bollinger et al, 1983;Kulicke and Krupp, 1987) due to their flexibility to innovate. But also it has been outstand the role of the technology based SME on the creation of employs and the economic growth (Rae, 2006;Ganotakis and Love, 2011;Li et al, 2012), as well as the technological dissemination (Tsvetkova et al 2014).…”

Training programmes as incubators

“…According to Kulicke and Krupp (1987), NTBFs can be conceived of as young firms whose products are based on technology. Likewise, we see technology and NTBF development, essentially as a social construct.…”