In 1981 he formed Advent Venture Partners, one of the first venture capital firms in the United Kingdom, which provided financing for technology-based businesses.

The UK Innovation Investment Fund (UKIIF) provides funding for technology-based businesses with high growth potential.

"Nuisance patent suits are part of the background noise" in technology-based businesses, said Bill Purcell, chief executive of Planet U, one of the defendants.

It is oriented towards careers in technology-based businesses.

Her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital has had a very positive response from academics as well as from the financial and the technology-based business communities.

The incubator works to foster the start-up and growth of technology-based businesses associated with the university.

Under Goran Lindahl, who became chief executive in 1996, ABB shed major power generation and transport businesses and sought to cast itself as a technology-based business.

'Advancing world' Resident spokesman Richard Foulkes said: "People will be able to vastly improve their work/life balance and we can also build sustainable technology-based businesses.

The capstone project in the business curriculum is the design of a technology-based business, with the accompanying business plan, operations research, market analysis, financial prospectus, and risk analysis.

Ariadne seeks to accelerate the momentum of fast-growing technology-based businesses.