PARTNERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE OF SMES’ OPEN INNOVATION: DOES BUSINESS GROUP AFFILIATION MATTER?

EU SMEs and E-Business Innovation

Although motivating electronic business (e-business) adoption and implemention by smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is endorsed by policies and initiatives introduced by the European Union (EU), a number of challenges arise as the result of a limited conceptual understanding of the relationship between SMEs and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Relatively little is known...

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

The Review of SMEs Open Innovation Performance

Open innovation has provided more opportunities and broader space for Smalland Mediumsized Enterprises (SMEs for short) in innovative practices, but also brought new challenges to SMEs. Focusing on the performance of SMEs in open innovation, this paper conducts a literature commentary from several aspects including innovation performance, constraints, impact and strategy of improving open innov...

Open Source Software Innovation Process: Does Gender Still Matter?

Using data from in-depth interviews and Delphi method on Open Source Software (OSS) contributors, this study uses a social constructivist and feminist perspective model to investigate the gender’s contribution in OSS innovation process. The results show that both male and female contributors have their preferences in term of roles and contributions in OSS. The type of contributions varies from ...