Antecedents and determinants of high-tech SMEs’ commercialisation enablers: opening the black box of open innovation practices

Pustovrh, Aleš; Jaklič, Marko; Martin, Sheila A.; Rašković, Matevž

doi:10.1080/1331677x.2017.1305795

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“…Pustovrh et al [60], in turn, claim that SMEs involved in broader types of open collaboration display higher levels of innovativeness. Rangus et al [49] confirmed that firms which are open towards innovation are embedded in different networks, maintain regular collaborations with various partners, and, because of that, leverage their knowledge and technology in ways that can enhance their innovation performance.…”

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“…Existing research has focused on open innovation practices in developed economies, with limited focus on less developed countries, such as the transition economies, like Central and Eastern Europe countries [49]. We can find some interesting research focused on open innovation, innovation cooperation or innovation performance in the CEE [6,49,60,100,101], but these few studies are unfortunately focused on a particular country. Taking into account the biopharmaceutical industry in the CEE region with high potential of clinical trials could be an interesting research gap for future studies, including both business-university alliances [102,103] [108], as well as antecedents of SME innovativeness in transition or post-transition countries (where companies face more external and institutional obstacles to innovation).…”

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Determinants of Innovation Cooperation Performance: What Do We Know and What Should We Know?

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The involvement of firms in innovation cooperation with different partners has become a widespread phenomenon in the contemporary business landscape. Our paper provides a review of extant alliance, innovation, open innovation and inter-firm collaboration literature and organizes it based on a conceptual framework featuring three levels of analysis: (a) the dyadic level, (b) the network level, and (c) the location level. The article identifies roadmaps in each of these areas and also highlights existing gaps in the present understanding of innovation cooperation. Thereby, it outlines a research agenda by identifying key research questions and issues in the areas where further research is needed and encouraged.Sustainability 2018, 10, 4517 3 of 32 changes that create the economic space of a given country [29] In this space, which Freeman called the National Innovation System, there are more or less formalized networks of cooperating companies and institutions. Indeed, as Fomina et al. [30] argue, the stability of economic development is determined by the features of the network structure in a collaborative engagement of enterprises. Therefore, it is legitimate to explore whether and how the location of companies and other institutions influence their cooperation for the development of innovation, and the performance outcomes thereof.Economic geography has developed the concept of proximity to explain the formation of networks and clusters of innovative companies in industrial districts [31,32]. The different dimensions of proximity may explain some of the positive externalities, such as knowledge creation and transfer, as well as innovation, which are generated by companies that are co-located [33]. According to Boschma [34], proximity implies similarity between actors and organizations, including both a geographical or spatial dimension and other non-spatial dimensions. Knoben and Oerlemans [35] note that "the concept of proximity has been used in many different ways in the literature, this including different measures and definitions".Boschma [34] identifies five types of proximity:

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Determinants of Innovation Cooperation Performance: What Do We Know and What Should We Know?

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“…Bjerke and Johansson (2015) find that the innovation performance of SMEs is particularly stimulated by collaborating with dissimilar technology partners that are geographically positioned at larger distances from the focal firms. Pustovrh et al (2017) show that OI activities involving collaboration and knowledge exchange with the partners significantly influence the innovation performance of the SMEs. Theyel (2013) studied the effects on the innovation performance of 293 US-based SMEs of various OI practices along the value chain.…”

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“…Furthermore, successful SMEs make more effective use of the supporting tools (e.g., living labs) that are available to them (Schuurman et al, 2016). Studies have also pointed out that organizational factors help in creating OI culture and increasing innovation performance of SMEs (Popa et al, 2017;Pustovrh et al, 2017). The SMEs involved in OI are mostly first in introducing innovation in the market rather than being a follower (Hochleitner et al, 2017).…”

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A Systematic Review of the Literature on Open Innovation in SMEs

Usman¹,

Roijakkers²,

Vanhaverbeke³

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Researching Open Innovation in SMEs

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This chapter provides a systematic review of the open innovation (OI) research carried out within the context of small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). The chapter should provide an accurate understanding of current literature about OI in SMEs, and it elaborates many future research avenues. The recent increase in the number of publications in this field shows that it has gained the attention of the academicians. The existing research shows that SMEs organize and manage OI in an entirely different way from large companies. SMEs get involved in OI based on their own strategic needs, and OI mechanisms have to be designed differently for SMEs.

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“…Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License pronounced in dynamic environments (Miller and Toulouse, 1986). To understand the antecedents of innovativeness within SMEs there is a need to review it uniquely as opposed to reviewing it from a large organization context (McAdam et al, 2007;Ejydys, 2016;Wales, 2016;Pustovrh et al, 2017). This paper reviews what has been done before and identifies areas where there is lack of consensus at the antecedents of innovativeness in SMEs in Kenya.…”

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The antecedents of innovativeness in small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya: A critical review of literature

Mkalama¹,

Ndemo²,

Maalu³

2018

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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Innovation has been accepted as a key stimulus for growth. This is more so with SMEs which are widely acknowledged as being a significant driver in economic growth. In a review of over 90 peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers; this paper brings together different arguments that have been made in explaining the antecedents for innovativeness. This is a critical review of the literature with respect to innovativeness of manufacturing SMEs. Whereas it is acknowledged that the discussions around innovation are continually evolving, existing literature has shown that there are internal and external factors that affect innovativeness in firms. In addition to this, there is a need to have research that applies universally and hence the need to study this phenomenon in manufacturing SMEs in Kenya and the gaps therein. Even though entrepreneurial orientation, technological capability and environmental dynamism have been identified as variables affecting firm innovativeness, there is no common consensus across various approaches. A need to empirically explore this area further effectively contributing to knowledge in this area has been identified.

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Antecedents and determinants of high-tech SMEs’ commercialisation enablers: opening the black box of open innovation practices

Cited by 34 publications

References 57 publications

Determinants of Innovation Cooperation Performance: What Do We Know and What Should We Know?

Determinants of Innovation Cooperation Performance: What Do We Know and What Should We Know?

A Systematic Review of the Literature on Open Innovation in SMEs

The antecedents of innovativeness in small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya: A critical review of literature

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