Open Innovation in SMEs: Trends, Motives and Management Challenges
As with other fashionable concepts open innovation (OI) requires extensive empirical investigation, testing and development. Evidence for OI practices has been provided by case research about large, diversified firms but OI practices in SMEs have not been analyzed systematically. This paper represents the results of a survey among 605 Dutch innovating SMEs. The results show that SMEs are increasingly adapting OI practices and larger SMEs are adapting more quickly than smaller ones. SMEs pursue an OI strategy to realize market-related objectives such as meeting customer demands, or keeping up with competitors. In addition, the results show that the most important barriers respondents face are related to the organizational and cultural differences when cooperating with other partners. Other serious barriers are administrative burdens, financing issues and knowledge transfer problems.
Open Innovation SMEs Motives for and Barriers to Cooperation
Jeroen P.J. De JONG Wim VANHAVERBEKE Vareska VAN de VRANDE
EIM Business and Policy Research The Netherlands TU/e & Hasselt University Hasselt, Belgium Eindhoven Univ.of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
国际会议
The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)
杭州
英文
259-263
2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）