1. Barriers to growth : the ACARD study / John Barber, Stanley Metcalfe, and Mike Porteous -- 2. Management attitudes, behaviour, and abilities as barriers to growth / derek Bosworth and Chris Jacobs -- 3. Lack of finance as a constraint on the expansion of innovatory small firms / Graham Hall -- 4. Barriers to growth : the labour market / derek Bosworth -- 5. The importance of technology transfer / Roy Rothwell and Mark Beesley -- 6. Large purchasers / Keith Hartley and John Hutton -- 7. Small firms' merger activity and competition policy / Alan Hughes -- 8. Barriers to growth : the effects of market structure / John McGee.