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Mon 04 Apr 2009Best to think small when looking for big ideas
CONTRARY TO common perception and much of the media focus, it’s the small-scale entrepreneurs not the big firms that you need to turn to when you look for those who will lead us out of the recession. So argues Prof Erkko Autio, who currently holds the chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London, writes FRANK DILLON
“During downturns large firms lead job destruction. They react quicker to changes in the market and put a greater emphasis on cost cutting,” he told The Irish Times.
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