How to Work with Small Companies to Expand your Open Innovation Capabilities

<p>Most of innovation studies and researches are not related to innovation measurement and, in general, it only addresses some innovative actions in terms of products, services or processes. This paper addresses the difficulties in researching innovation and Open Innovation (OI) performance metrics through an exploratory literature research followed by a survey conducted with small technology-based enterprises incubated at important Brazilian industrial and technological centers. It is well known that for many small business entrepreneurs and managers, the idea of OI practices are still restricted to large corporations. Against this idea, this work proposes an understanding of these OI practices, besides an analysis of its measurement. The indicators proposed by this work developed with the support of the statistical technique of factorial analysis, has been proved to be the most significant to measure OI at this kind of company and, with them, it has been possible to understand that small companies can successfully use OI and, although it is not common today, it should be encouraged. This study’s conclusions can be useful for researchers and Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) interested in joining or increasing their OI practices.</p>

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Technology intelligence practices in SMEs: Evidence from Estonia

Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business ◽

10.37380/jisib.v1i1.560 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Akhatjon Nasullaev ◽

Raffaella Manzini ◽

Tarmo Kalvet

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Small Firms ◽

Life Sciences ◽

Small Companies ◽

Cultural Characteristics ◽

Specific Context ◽

Technology Intelligence ◽

Catching Up ◽

Manufacturing Information

Technology intelligence is regarded as a strategic tool to support open innovation to identify promising niches of technologies, opportunities and threats, potential partners, future customers and markets. However, it has often been neglected by SMEs due to their constraints in money, time, skills and competences. Hitherto, the literature documented very few cases of the operationalization of technology intelligence practices by small firms of catching-up economies. To remedy this gap, this paper investigates the case of three Estonian SMEs in the manufacturing, information technology and life-sciences industries. Our analysis reveals that elements of technology intelligence in large and small companies are similar. The three medium and small sized companies investigated in this study adopted these elements to their specific context orchestrating their organizational and cultural characteristics. This study details these elements and allows us to understand more precisely the process underlying the phenomenon of technology intelligence in small companies. The major finding of this paper is that a unique set of technology intelligence does not exist. It is important to tailor different elements of technology intelligence to determined needs. It is crucial in the case of SMEs in order to address the limitations mentioned above.

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Measuring open innovation practices in small companies at important Brazilian industrial centers

Technological Forecasting and Social Change ◽

10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119805 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 151 ◽

pp. 119805 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Adriano Carlos Moraes Rosa ◽

Carlos henrique Pereira Mello ◽

Vanessa Cristhina Gatto Chimendes ◽

Gabriela Fonseca Amorim

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Small Companies ◽

Innovation Practices

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Factorial Analysis as a tool to support the measurement of Open Innovation practices in Small Business in important Brazilian industrial centers

10.31124/advance.9336854 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Adriano Carlos Rosa ◽

Carlos Henrique Pereira Mello ◽

Vanessa Cristhina Gatto Chimendes ◽

Herlandi Andrade ◽

Gabriela Fonseca Amorim

Keyword(s):

Small Business ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Performance Metrics ◽

Statistical Technique ◽

Factorial Analysis ◽

Small Companies ◽

Innovation Studies ◽

Innovation Measurement ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

Innovation Practices

<p>Most of innovation studies and researches are not related to innovation measurement and, in general, it only addresses some innovative actions in terms of products, services or processes. This paper addresses the difficulties in researching innovation and Open Innovation (OI) performance metrics through an exploratory literature research followed by a survey conducted with small technology-based enterprises incubated at important Brazilian industrial and technological centers. It is well known that for many small business entrepreneurs and managers, the idea of OI practices are still restricted to large corporations. Against this idea, this work proposes an understanding of these OI practices, besides an analysis of its measurement. The indicators proposed by this work developed with the support of the statistical technique of factorial analysis, has been proved to be the most significant to measure OI at this kind of company and, with them, it has been possible to understand that small companies can successfully use OI and, although it is not common today, it should be encouraged. This study’s conclusions can be useful for researchers and Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) interested in joining or increasing their OI practices.</p>

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Small companies and AMT

Production Engineer ◽

10.1049/tpe.1988.0245 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 67 (10) ◽

pp. 40

Author(s):

Stanley Oliver

Keyword(s):

Small Companies

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Speeding-Up Innovation with Business Hackathons

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.11.263 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Myrna FLORES ◽

Matic GOLOB ◽

Doroteja MAKLIN ◽

Christopher TUCCI

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Short Period ◽

User Centric ◽

Specific Challenge ◽

Innovation Outcomes ◽

The Way

In recent years, the way organizations innovate and develop new solutions has changed considerably. Moving from ‘behind the closed doors’ style of innovating to open innovation where collaboration with outsiders is encouraged, organizations are in the pursuit of more effective ways to accelerate their innovation outcomes. As a result, organizations are establishing creative and entrepreneurial ecosystems, which not only empower employees but also involve many others to co-create new solutions. In this paper, we present a methodology for organizing hackathons, i.e. competition-based events where small teams work over a short period of time to ideate, design, prototype and test their ideas following a user-centric approach to solve a specific challenge. This paper also provides insights into two different hackathons organized in the United Kingdom, and Mexico, as well as a series of 5 hackathons organized in Argentina, Mexico, Switzerland, United Kingdom and in Senegal.

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Patterns of conduct of Argentine SMEs with respect to ICT investments

Fórum Empresarial ◽

10.33801/fe.v25i1.18495 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 47-78

Author(s):

Guillermo Alberto Tricoci ◽

Pablo Alejandro Corral ◽

María Cecilia Oriolo

Keyword(s):

Size Composition ◽

Field Work ◽

Mixed Methodology ◽

Small Companies ◽

Consulting Services ◽

Empirical Scheme ◽

Composition Of Capital

Various authors have concluded that there are different groupings that make it possible to explain the differences between companies in terms of their size, composition of capital or the degree of their evolution in terms of ICT and that within medium and small companies there are special dynamics that are necessary understand. This work is focused on this type of firms and a mixed methodology has been used to obtain data, which included the preparation of a field work supported by consultations with relevant personalities from academia, industry and consulting services in the area. It is proposed to draw an empirical scheme of the SME sector in Argentina, and results are presented in relation to the investment and adoption of ICT in these type of firms.

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