“…SMEs are found to be less able to exploit innovation (Strobel and Kratzer, 2017;Burcharth, Lettl and Ulhøi, 2015;Albors, Sweeney and Hidalgo, 2005) and often have weak or unstructured decision making processes (Salles, 2006). Their limited managerial, human and financial resources (Rezaei, Ortt and Trott, 2015;Fornasiero and Zangiacomi 2013) can often lead to a greater level of reliance on knowledge from external sources and the difficulty to conduct R&D activities (Bianchi et al, 2010).…”