INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY-TRANSFER BY SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES

This paper attempts to summarize the key issues involved in the intern ational transfer of technology by small and medium-sized enterprises. All the evidence suggests that small and medium-sized enterprises will not, in aggregate, be the major suppliers and transferrers of technol ogy in the world economy, but they can fill crucial niche roles. The s uccess of these niche roles will be partly determined by the key relat ionship between firm size and industry size and by small and medium si zed enterprises being able to ride the dynamics of the industry.