Harris & Harris Group Inc.

NEWS RELEASE

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.	MAY 13, 2003
ONE ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10020
NASDAQ/NMS SYMBOL: TINY
CONTACT: CHARLES E. HARRIS
TEL. NO. (212) 332-3606

NANOSYS IN THE DEAL

Shareholders of Harris & Harris Group, Inc. may be interested in reading an article entitled, "Betting on Lilliput," on page 23 of the May 12, 2003, issue of The Deal. This article is about Nanosys, Inc. (www.nanosysinc.com); it may be viewed also on the worldwide web at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u;=/thedeal/20030512/bs_deal_thedeal/venture_well__betting_on_lilliput.

Privately held Nanosys is developing nanotechnology-enabled systems incorporating novel and patent-protected zero and one-dimensional nanometer-scale materials such as nanowires, nanotubes and nanodots (quantum dots). Harris & Harris Group, Inc. invested $1,500,000 in Nanosys in April 2003.

Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that now makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including microsystems, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology. The Company's last 10 initial private equity investments have been in tiny-technology enabled companies.

Harris & Harris Group, Inc. is a Business Development Company with 11,498,845 common shares outstanding.

Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group, Inc. and its holdings can be found on its website at http://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.