A counting multidimensional innovation index for SMEs

A Counting Approach for Measuring Multidimensional Deprivation

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking and quantifying the extent of deprivation exhibited by multidimensional distributions, where the multiple attributes in which an individual can be deprived are represented by dichotomized variables. To this end we first aggregate deprivation for each individual into a “deprivation count” indicating the number of dimensions for which the indivi...

Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs

With the advent of innovative technologies and multi-dimensional researches along the setting of entrepreneurship development, philosophy, context and business handling has been transformed from being traditional to innovative. Depending on diversity and nature of the transformation, innovation has been shifted from closed to open to crowdsourcing innovation. Ranging from small entrepreneurs to...

Creative Business Model Innovation for Globalizing SMEs

Disruptive Innovation: An Powerful Avenue for SMEs

While usually been considered by established businesses as an attack, disruptive innovation provide an appropriate innovation approach for SMEs through new market discovery. This article tries to explore the opportunities offered by disruptive technlology and how SMEs could benefit from diruptive innovation. The process and features of diruptive innovaion and a managrial framework for diruptive...

Counting and Multidimensional Poverty

The concept of multidimensional poverty has risen to prominence among researchers and policymakers. The compelling writings of Amartya Sen, participatory poverty exercises in many countries, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) all draw attention to the multiple deprivations suffered by many of the poor and the interconnections among these deprivations. A key task for research has been t...