Abstract: Abstract: The growth of high-tech enterprises reflects their survival conditions in the growing cycle. It is of great advantage to locate various kinds of resources by evaluating the growth for the growing high-tech enterprises. Also it is beneficial to the financial institutions and investors as well for picking the investment targets. From the perspective of macro-management, it provides rationales for government to work out policies and regulations. On the basis of literature overview, those high-tech enterprises are defined and classified and an evaluation index system is put forward. The system has the characteristics of the developed areas and the highly export-oriented enterprises while attaching great importance to social benefit evuluation and the estimation of potential quality of the enterprises’ credit. Through a case study of growth evaluation of growing high-tech enterprises in Ningbo of Zhejiang province, an empirical analysis is conducted and a systematic model from the aspects of quantitative evaluation, qualitative evaluation, and comprehensive evaluation is constructed.

Key words: high-tech enterprise, growth, evaluation