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This paper proposes a dominant element innovation theory of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), analyzes the theoretical connotation which start from extracting dominant element and end in forming dominant innovation pattern, then takes the dynamic and evolutionary perspective to describe the evolvement mechanism of element-oriented innovation pattern, later through a case study of Fujian Haiyuan...
The industry cluster is the main development pattern of the current equipment manufacturing industry. This thesis analyzes the information requirements of small and Medium-sized enterprises in the cluster for collaborative business and innovative service, and conducts the research on cooperation and innovation pattern by making use of public service platform. In the thesis, the basic framework of...
Technological innovation is an effective way to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs. But with the relatively weak technical capacity, cooperation innovation has more advantage for SMEs than self-innovation, such as reducing innovation time, saving innovation cost, saving learning costs. SMEs can take these model as follows: technology alliance, innovation network and co-bulid entity.
Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) have been widely used in recent years to study open innovation (OI) activities, which have become a hot issue. While most research has aimed for a general overview of the OI activities in a specific country, this study, which pertains to OI activities in Taiwan, focuses on outstandingly innovative firms to benchmark and examine country-specific industrial characteristics,...
The main objective of this study is to define the core attributes that influence the member firms of small and medium enterprise collaborative innovation networks (SME CINs) to join collaborative research and development (R&D) projects provided by the inter-firm networking of SMEs in technology-intensive clustering assistance (TICA) projects. We used social network analysis, resource dependence...
The paper presents an approach which constructs networked service system for RP (Rapid Prototyping) industries, summarizes the networked service pattern, and discusses the networked service matching and composition of RP enterprise. It analyzes the technical theory of system construction, description metamodel of networked service based on domain ontology is built to describe the interior of enterprise...
This paper studies the critical factors that SMEs should pay attention to when they managed their innovation networks to improve their innovation competences. We investigated 105 SMEs distributed in different industries with most of them in manufacture industry and got 204 valid questionnaires. The survey results show that there are 4 factors which influence SMEs innovation performance, i.e. partner...
Since 1990s, there has been a growing concern about the role of industrial cluster in stimulating a regional and in turn a national competitiveness. Especially in the context of emerging technologies and related knowledge-economy business models, linking stakeholders in dynamic clusters is believed to enhance competition and regional innovation (OECD, 1999). Whilst industry cluster contains a huge...
The university-industry research collaborations (UIRCs) have been recognized as an important factor of the production of innovation and have been mainly conducted by large enterprises so far in Japan. Meanwhile, there are a lot of problems in the UIRCs of small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and almost of such enterprises except research and development type of SMEs have not taken a step forward the UIRCs...
The successful establishment and management of an effective innovation network is often a critical challenge for SMEs, meanwhile basic for performance outcomes. In fact for small organizations, extramural collaborations represent a key element in developing product/process innovation. An empirical study in the calibration industry provides some insights on this topic.
Dynamically changing customer demands request manufacturers to make quality products with cheaper prices and shorter delivery. To survive in the global market, the manufacturing industry of today needs to be equipped with advanced technologies including IT as well as substantial infrastructure. Under this situation, we found that "collaboration" is the right answer for manufacturers to survive...
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