Identify open innovation challenges in small and medium-sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projects
Today, small and medium enterprises are recognized as one of the areas that have a high potential for national and regional development and Help improve local technology and develop local entrepreneurs. Open innovation has become widely regarded as a key issue in business and academia. There is a ne...
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| author | Milad Bakhsham Hossein Karimi Mahdi Hosseinpour |
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| description | Today, small and medium enterprises are recognized as one of the areas that have a high potential for national and regional development and Help improve local technology and develop local entrepreneurs. Open innovation has become widely regarded as a key issue in business and academia. There is a need to use open innovation to increase the competitiveness of companies indoestic and foreign markets. Traditional small and medium sized enterprises, as one of these sector, must also be able to respond to these increasing changes . The purpose of this study is to identify the challenges of open innovation in traditional small and medium-sized businesses. This research is qualitative in terms of type (multiple case study), fundamental in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of methodology. Therefore, semi-structured interviews have been conducted with 21 members of the staff of 7 traditional small and medium companies that have a history of participating in pre-competition partnerships with industry and academia. The results showed that lack of planning for project partners, inappropriate innovation strategy, unknown partners, inconsistency of goals, lack of social trust, time pressure, lack of financial resources, Inadequate information and control systems, redefining goals, ignoring partners' efforts, bureaucracy and administrative work, lack of inappropriate policies in order to accept advanced innovation and failure to achieve the desired goals were identified as key challenges of this study. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a5b31344a372467e87202e0ea9ba01332023-04-08T09:38:01ZfasSharif University of Technology (Sharif Policy Research Institute)سیاست نامه علم و فناوری2476-72202717-19732022-06-011224463Identify open innovation challenges in small and medium-sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projectsMilad Bakhsham Hossein KarimiMahdi Hosseinpour0Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi UniversityToday, small and medium enterprises are recognized as one of the areas that have a high potential for national and regional development and Help improve local technology and develop local entrepreneurs. Open innovation has become widely regarded as a key issue in business and academia. There is a need to use open innovation to increase the competitiveness of companies indoestic and foreign markets. Traditional small and medium sized enterprises, as one of these sector, must also be able to respond to these increasing changes . The purpose of this study is to identify the challenges of open innovation in traditional small and medium-sized businesses. This research is qualitative in terms of type (multiple case study), fundamental in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of methodology. Therefore, semi-structured interviews have been conducted with 21 members of the staff of 7 traditional small and medium companies that have a history of participating in pre-competition partnerships with industry and academia. The results showed that lack of planning for project partners, inappropriate innovation strategy, unknown partners, inconsistency of goals, lack of social trust, time pressure, lack of financial resources, Inadequate information and control systems, redefining goals, ignoring partners' efforts, bureaucracy and administrative work, lack of inappropriate policies in order to accept advanced innovation and failure to achieve the desired goals were identified as key challenges of this study.http://stpl.ristip.sharif.ir/article_22434_6c69877f001c487a8d15a3c624442bc3.pdfnational developmentsmesopen innovationchallenges |
| spellingShingle | Milad Bakhsham Hossein Karimi Mahdi Hosseinpour Identify open innovation challenges in small and medium-sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projects سیاست نامه علم و فناوری national development smes open innovation challenges |
| title | Identify open innovation challenges in small and medium-sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projects |
| title_full | Identify open innovation challenges in small and medium-sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projects |
| title_fullStr | Identify open innovation challenges in small and medium-sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identify open innovation challenges in small and medium-sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projects |
| title_short | Identify open innovation challenges in small and medium-sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projects |
| title_sort | identify open innovation challenges in small and medium sized businesses based on the stages of innovation projects |
| topic | national development smes open innovation challenges |
| url | http://stpl.ristip.sharif.ir/article_22434_6c69877f001c487a8d15a3c624442bc3.pdf |
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