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• TITLE: Dalian High-Tech SMEs Growth Evaluation Based on Catastrophe and Principal Component Projection Method

  AUTHORS: Lin LI, Pengfei ZHOU, Zhenghe LI

  KEYWORDS: Catastrophe Theory, Improved Principal Components projection Method, Enterprises Growth, High-tech Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Principal Component Projection Method

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Service Science and Management, Vol.2 No.4, December 14, 2009

  ABSTRACT: In the course of rapid economic development, high-tech small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are gradually playing an important role, which become important support to regional economic growth and science and technology development. So SMEs growth becomes a universal problem. And how to evaluate the SMEs growth becomes an important step, especially to high-tech SMEs growth. In this paper, catastrophe theory and improved principal components projection method are used and a mutation series of high-tech SMEs growth evaluation index system is built. Taking Dalian high-tech SMEs as an example, high-tech SMEs growth is evaluated, which contributes to high-tech SMEs growth forecast and government to formulate policies to support high-tech SMEs development.