Harris & Harris Group Inc.

PRESS RELEASE

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.	JANUARY 14, 2004
111 WEST 57TH STREET
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019
NASDAQ/NMS SYMBOL: TINY
CONTACT: CHARLES E. HARRIS
TEL. NO. (212) 582-0900

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP NAMES DOUGLAS W. JAMISON AS PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2005

The Board of Directors of Harris & Harris Group, Inc. voted today to name Douglas W. Jamison as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2005, upon the scheduled retirement of Mel P. Melsheimer, who will continue in those positions through December 31, 2004.

Mr. Jamison is currently a Vice President of the Company. He joined the Company in September of 2002 from the University of Utah Technology Transfer Office. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A., 1992) and the University of Utah (M.S., 1999). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Chlorogen, Inc., in which the Company has an investment. His professional societies include the Association of University Technology Managers, for which he serves on its Survey Statistics and Metrics Committee, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a member of the Advisory Board, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Nanotechnology Venture Forum and of the Advisory Board, Nanotechnology Law & Business (Journal for Attorneys, Entrepreneurs and Investors Involved in Small Scale Technologies).

Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that now makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The Company's last 12 initial private equity investments have been in tiny-technology enabled companies.

Harris & Harris Group is a business development company with 13,798,845 common shares outstanding.

Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group and its holdings can be found on its website at www.TinyTechVC.com.

This press release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. These statements reflect the Company's current beliefs, and a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in this press release. Please see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and recent Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, including but not limited to the risks and uncertainties associated with venture capital investing and other significant factors that could affect the Company's actual results. Except as otherwise required by Federal securities laws, Harris & Harris Group, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or uncertainties.