ch. 1. Introduction / Aard Groen, Peter van der Sijde -- ch. 2. Enterprise education and the adoption of new technologies within small firms / Piers Thompson, Caleb C.Y. Kwong, Dylan Jones-Evans -- ch. 3. Taking technological opportunities to the market : the role of university-based business plan competitions in supporting high technology commercialisation / Pauric McGowan, Sarah Cooper -- ch. 4. Coaching versus mentoring : are there any differences? / Magnus Klofsten, Staffan Ob̈erg -- ch. 5. Clustering and the internationalisation of high technology small firms in film and television / Gary Cook, Naresh Pandit -- ch. 6. Strategies for circumventing born global firms' resource scarcity dilemma / Viveca Sasi, Pia Arenius -- ch. 7. Value creation by small firm internationalization : a competence-based approach / Tina Gruber-Muecke -- ch. 8. An investigation on environmental scanning and growth strategy in high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises / Azhdar Karami -- ch. 9. Transitional governance in external technology sourcing trajectories : connecting pre-acquisition collaboration to post-acquisition integration / Dries Faems -- ch. 10. The use of patents in Dutch biopharmaceutical SME : a typology for assessing strategic patent management maturity / Sander Kern, Rik van Reekum -- ch. 11. An exploratory study of the manufacturing strategy in start-up companies / Sirirat Sae Lim, Ken Platts, Tim Minshall -- ch. 12. Managing innovation for growth in high technology small firms / Kari Laine -- ch. 13. The nature of the entrepreneurial process : causation, effectuation, and pragmatism / Jeroen Kraaijenbrink.