Harris & Harris Group Inc.

NEWS RELEASE

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.	JULY 7, 2003
ONE ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10020
NASDAQ/NMS SYMBOL: TINY
CONTACT: CHARLES E. HARRIS
TEL. NO. (212) 332-3606

ARTICLE ON NANTERO, INC.

Shareholders of Harris & Harris Group, Inc. may be interested to read today's lead www.smalltimes.com article by Becky Breining, entitled "Nantero Founders Bank on Nanotube Memory Becoming Universal."

Harris & Harris Group owns a fully diluted 4.15 percent interest in privately-held Nantero. Nantero is a Harvard spin-out employing proprietary, patented technology to develop NRAM (Nanotube-based Random Access Memory).

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.