Author(s)

Lin LI, Pengfei ZHOU, Zhenghe LI

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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.

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

L. LI, P. ZHOU and Z. LI, "Dalian High-Tech SMEs Growth Evaluation Based on Catastrophe and Principal Component Projection Method," Journal of Service Science and Management, Vol. 2 No. 4, 2009, pp. 282-288. doi: 10.4236/jssm.2009.24034.