The media focus on dramatic stories of success, savvy, folly, and failure. Policymakers, and their economic advisers, focus on the contribution of high-tech companies to the creation of jobs and to national technological prowess. This report focuses on the role of such business organizations in the growth and development of particular industries and of the economy as a whole. Implantable and surgical medical devices. Tmplantable and surgical devices are designed for implantation in the human body, such as shoulder prostheses and left ventricular assist devices, or for ma- nipulating human organs and tissues, especially devices used to perform minimally invasive therapy.
Software is ubiquitous.
Environmental testing services. Network services and access devices. Outdoor sporting goodis. Although these firms are important they represent a narrow segment of companies this report considers. On the matter of company size, although there are quantitative measures such as annual revenues or number of employees for characterizing small companies, these numbers are ultimately not very satisfying.