Unique aspects of high technology enterprise management

High technology enterprises are important elements in the present and future of the nation and the world. Such enterprises have a number of special characteristics that cause them to differ from the much larger number of businesses which managers normally operate successfully. These special characteristics must be recognized by enterprise managers to avoid many of the problems which have beset high technology endeavors in the past. With appropriate understanding of the special effects of high technology on general management considerations, high technology enterprise can play an ever-increasing role in attacking complex long-term national and world problems with which the future seems to abound.