Circular Economy (CE) Innovation and Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Geographical Overview and Sectorial Patterns

Kyriakopoulos, Grigorios L.; Solovev, Denis B.

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-8829-4_10

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“…In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, much research has suggested that the adoption of digital technologies plays an important role in crisis responses, particularly among SMEs [48][49][50][51]. Guo [49] used a data set from a survey with 518 Chinese SMEs to examine the relationship between SMEs' digitalization and their public crisis responses.…”

Section: Ict Innovation and Firm Performancementioning

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Impact of ICTs on Innovation and Performance of Firms: Do Start-ups, Regional Proximity and Skills Matter?

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Managers need to better understand how information and communication technologies (ICTs) lead to informed decisions about the investment and advantages of such technologies. However, at best, the empirical evidence on the business value of technology is mixed in relation to small firms. A total of 43 firms satisfied the study’s definition of start-ups. The final survey included 54 questions on access to and use of ICTs, innovation, firm characteristics, as well as the participants’ demographics, of which 11 factors were analyzed as part of this study. We found compelling evidence to support the positive effects of ICTs on firm-level innovation and performance based on the primary survey data of 270 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in an Australian regional area. Moreover, we found that ICT strategies and skills are important factors that drive innovation and the overall performance of SMEs. In addition, various conditions, such as an agile workplace culture and international trade, can help firms improve their performance. Young businesses, particularly start-ups with ICT skills, show an improved innovation capability. However, remoteness appears to influence innovation negatively for nascent firms. Thus, managers should focus on improving ICT skills, strategies, and networking that help facilitate tangible ICT investments to foster innovation and growth.

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Section: Ict Innovation and Firm Performancementioning

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“…In addition, it has been seen that customer experience has a mediating role in the relationship between after-sales services and service innovations and customer satisfaction. Kyriakopoulos and Solovev (2022), in their research on SMEs, concluded that while competing with the successful products of their competitors, it is necessary to deal with the special needs of customers and therefore innovation is a necessity, and in this context, emerging market SMEs can learn and innovate by imitating successful products and reverse engineering. Çalık (2021), In his study, with the emphasis that social activities achieved the desired process innovation results in the automotive and textile sectors, while other sectors could not achieve these results, he concluded that the environmental aspect of innovation being the least focused dimension of the activities is in parallel with the general average in all other sectors, excluding the automotive sector.…”

Section: Concept Of Smes and Innovationmentioning

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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Perspectives On Innovation Activities: Konya Automotive Sector

KINALI¹,

IRAZ²

2023

TurkishStudies

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are the heart of the world economic system, are of great importance in the globalizing and increasing competition environment. Manufacturing industry enterprises employing 1-50 workers are defined as 'small-scale', manufacturing industry enterprises employing 51-150 workers are defined as 'medium-sized' and enterprises employing more than 150 workers are defined as 'large-scale' enterprises, according to the Small and Medium Enterprises Development and Support Administration (KOSGEB) establishment law numbered 3624, which entered into force in 1990. Particularly, the innovation activities of SMEs contribute positively to the economy, development of the country and competitive advantage of the enterprises. Therefore, innovation activities have an important share in all enterprises. The concept of innovation refers to 'renewal' and represents the innovative activities of enterprises in many areas. Unlike large enterprises, SMEs have become more successful in innovation with their flexibility, customer relations and ability to respond to their needs in a shorter time. In this study, first of all, SMEs have been evaluated in a general framework and the concept of innovation has been explained. The data obtained in 2016 within the scope of the doctoral program were tested in the SPSS package program. This study, which was carried out with the questionnaire data collection technique, was applied on 112 people. As a result of the analysis, it has been tried to determine the perspectives of the automotive companies operating in Konya, Turkey, in terms of innovation approaches and the types of innovations carried out. In addition, a statistically significant relationship has been found between the number of employees of automotive enterprises and their innovation activities, and between the share of raw materials and material purchases in imports and the innovation activities of the enterprises.

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“…This process contained successive production chains of the thoughtful shipment of waste to the recycling industry, as well as waste losses due to damage or leakage from the waste containers. The overall process can be validated by the optimal values of the price discount and container-leakage cost, emphasizing the principles of a circular economy [17,18]: reducing and restoring waste in successive steps [16]. The high sensitivity of the restoration of waste for recycling can optimize the entire cost of the supply chain, while a primary chain can further reduce the generation of waste as a result of the price-discount policy [16].…”

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Practical Improvement Scenarios for an Innovative Waste-Collection Recycling Program Operating with Mobile Green Points (MGPs)

2023

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Since 2021, the prefectural authorities of the Attica Region in Greece have been operating a rewarding recycling program for the collection of clean recyclable waste in collaboration with the “Specialist Integrated Association of the Prefecture of Attica” (EDSNA, in Greek) and private contractors, called “THE GREEN CITY”. This program mobilizes almost 30 mobile green points (MGPs) daily, which are self-propelled trucks that collect clean recyclable materials from citizens and businesses across the Attica Region. After one year of operation, this program has shown promising results, having more than 100,000 registered citizens and having already collected over 500 tons of clean recyclable municipal solid wastes in more than 60 municipalities of Attica. However, these promising results are accompanied by some significant financial and environmental costs. This study presents two different practical improvement scenarios for THE GREEN CITY recycling program’s current situation that ensure (a) the shortening of the annual kilometers and time on the remote routes of all programs, (b) the annual fuel-cost decrease for the MGPs and (c) the annual reduction of their CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Afterwards, we compare these two scenarios and conclude that the “first improvement scenario with main depot decentralization” is more realistic, feasible and has a bigger total sum of positive impacts than the second one. Therefore, this study strongly suggests the implementation of the “first improvement scenario with main depot decentralization” and opens the road to future improvement scenarios for various waste-management systems or recycling programs.

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Circular Economy (CE) Innovation and Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Geographical Overview and Sectorial Patterns

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Impact of ICTs on Innovation and Performance of Firms: Do Start-ups, Regional Proximity and Skills Matter?

Impact of ICTs on Innovation and Performance of Firms: Do Start-ups, Regional Proximity and Skills Matter?

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Perspectives On Innovation Activities: Konya Automotive Sector

Practical Improvement Scenarios for an Innovative Waste-Collection Recycling Program Operating with Mobile Green Points (MGPs)

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