Cooperation for innovativeness in SMEs: a taxonomy for cooperation design

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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1504/ijev.2022.122015

Christoph Buck, Laura Watkowski, K. Wyrtki

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Abstract

Various resource constraints of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) highlight the strategy of cooperation for innovation as it enhances organizations’ options and breadth of knowledge sources. Nevertheless, research lacks guidance on why, with whom, and how to cooperate and has so far not provided a comprehensive overview of the characteristics of cooperation to foster SMEs innovativeness. To build a conceptual body of knowledge for further iterations, we conducted a structured literature review since, to our best knowledge, there is as yet no structured knowledge on cooperation for innovation among SMEs that could have served as the basis of a taxonomy. Our taxonomy delineates the design options for practitioners and advises that one select organization-specific parameters. With this taxonomy, we conceptually structure existing research and empower practitioners to analyze their current cooperation projects, reconsider them, and gain knowledge to design new ways of cooperation that best suit their aims.

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中小企业创新合作:合作设计的分类学

中小企业的各种资源约束突出了合作创新战略，因为它增加了组织的选择和知识来源的广度。然而，研究缺乏对为什么合作、与谁合作以及如何合作的指导，迄今为止也没有对合作促进中小企业创新的特征提供全面的概述。为了为进一步的迭代建立概念性的知识体系，我们进行了结构化的文献综述，因为据我们所知，目前还没有关于中小企业创新合作的结构化知识，可以作为分类法的基础。我们的分类法描述了从业者的设计选项，并建议选择特定于组织的参数。有了这个分类法，我们从概念上构建了现有的研究，并授权从业者分析他们当前的合作项目，重新考虑它们，并获得知识来设计最适合他们目标的新合作方式。

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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing MANAGEMENT-

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2.60

自引率

20.00%

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期刊介绍： The journal name relates to Harvard Business School''s understanding of "The Entrepreneurial Venture" (Sahlmann/Stevenson/Roberts/Bhidé), the concept of entrepreneurship not only limited to new ventures/start-ups, but further understood as the concentration of opportunity/growth/value creation regardless of company size, age or kind. Hence, IJEV addresses organisational processes surrounding these concepts: from an idea to an innovation. To bridge the gap between innovation and entrepreneurship research, IJEV emphasises implications of this new knowledge for researchers, managers, public policy makers and business educators. Topics covered include: -Opportunity: identification; recognition; creation; selection; exploitation -Growth: management of rapidly growing enterprises; control -Value creation: for owners; for customers; other stakeholders; society -Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship -New venture creation -Management of technology and innovation -New product development and creativity -SME management -Entrepreneurial and small enterprise finance -Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding -Family business -Gender and diversity -Global entrepreneurship and internationalisation -Public policy, the economy, and the small enterprise -Business and organisational failure