小企业的异军突起、蓬勃发展,是当今世界企业组织结构变换过程中出现的一个令人瞩目的现象。在中国,人们对于小企业在经济发展中作用的认识,已从原来的轻视、怀疑、甚至否定转变为普遍肯定和日益关心。小企业以其充分的活力、灵活的机制以及大中型企业无法替代的独特作用,显示了其强大的生命力。为了了解小企业家创新活动的基本情况,我们在国家自然科学基金的资助下,于1991年12月对浙江省50家小企业的企业家特质及创新行为进行了研究(研究对象的行业分布见表1)。初级资料系根据 The sudden emergence and vigorous development of small businesses is an eye-catching phenomenon that has emerged in the transformation of the organizational structure of the world today. In China, people’s understanding of the role of small businesses in economic development has shifted from stigmatization, suspicion, and even negation to universal affirmation and growing concern. Small businesses show their strong vitality with their full vitality, flexible mechanisms and the unique role that large and medium-sized companies cannot substitute. In order to understand the basic situation of small entrepreneurs’ innovation activities, we conducted research on the characteristics and innovative behaviors of entrepreneurs of 50 small enterprises in Zhejiang Province in December 1991 under the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Table 1). The primary data is based on