Understanding innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises: a process manifest

By T. Edwards, Rick Delbridge, Max Munday. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Process innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises: The critical roles of external knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity (2020, background): “SMEs, with more-limited internal resources, are likely to rely on external collaborations to expand their innovation activities (Edwards et al., 2005).”
Making sense of innovation by R&D and non-R&D innovators in low technology contexts: a forgotten lesson for policymakers (2011, background): “, 2009); (3) most of the literature is biased on specific samples which makes it difficult to provide a comprehensive picture of the innovative capabilities in the SMEs (e.g. Ortega-Argiles et al., 2009; Edwards et al., 2005).”
Small businesses in the new creative industries: innovation as a people management challenge (2011, background): “), in part because of the relative youth of the industry, in part because games companies might be subsumed within more general studies of factors affecting SME growth, and performance ( Edwards et al. , 2005”
Open innovation in SMEs—An intermediated network model (2010, background): “…SMEs use non-internal means of innovation more than large firms, as they consider alliances or network as ways to extend their technological competences (Edwards et al., 2005; Rothwell, 1991), which means that innovation in SMEs is already has an external focus, and the concept is not new to them.”
Openness and Innovation Performance: Are Small Firms Different? (2014, background): “Weaker internal knowledge resources and ability to invest in in-house knowledge creation may make external sourcing of knowledge especially important for small firms (Leiponen and Byma 2009; Edwards, Delbridge, and Munday 2005).”
Open innovation: a new classification and its impact on firm performance in innovative SMEs (2015, background): “As noted by Edwards et al. (2005), a higher level of understanding is achieved when considering the complex linkage between an SME and its socio-cultural context.”
The Identification and Characterization of Open Innovation Profiles in Italian Small and Medium‐sized Enterprises (2015, background): “In the exploitation phase, SMEs try to succeed in the market by entering into supplier–customer relations with large firms (Luukkonen 2005), outsourcing agreements or strategic alliances with other SMEs (Edwards et al. 2005) or with multi-firm networks (Lee et al.”
Orchestrating innovation networks: The case of innovation brokers in the agri-food sector (2010, background): “The topic of innovation in SMEs has received a great deal of attention from scholars (for a review, see Edwards, Delbridge, and Munday 2005 ).”
Open innovation practices in SMEs and large enterprises (2012, neutral): “According to Edwards et al. (2005), SMEs view networking and cooperation as two ways to broaden their technical competences.”
Sustainability of SMEs in the Competition: A Systemic Review on Technological Challenges and SME Performance (2019, background): “Various factors are associated with low survival chance of the SMEs, and among them, low adoption of innovative strategies in production and marketing is noted [8,32,35,36].”