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Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs

Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs

Hakikur Rahman
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781616928803|ISBN10: 1616928808|EISBN13: 9781616928827
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-880-3.ch006
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Rahman, Hakikur. "Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs." E-Business Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs: Driving Competitiveness, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha and João Varajão, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 87-100. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-880-3.ch006

APA

Rahman, H. (2011). Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs. In M. Cruz-Cunha & J. Varajão (Eds.), E-Business Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs: Driving Competitiveness (pp. 87-100). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-880-3.ch006

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Rahman, Hakikur. "Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs." In E-Business Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs: Driving Competitiveness, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha and João Varajão, 87-100. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-880-3.ch006

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Abstract

With the advent of innovative technologies and multi-dimensional researches along the setting of entrepreneurship development, philosophy, context and business handling has been transformed from being traditional to innovative. Depending on diversity and nature of the transformation, innovation has been shifted from closed to open to crowdsourcing innovation. Ranging from small entrepreneurs to corporate business houses are being immensely benefited by the innovation techniques, especially utilizing information and communication technologies. However, the road to innovation, despite being a paradigm shift is not smooth and ready for many, particularly the small and medium enterprises who mainly deal with the clients at the outer peripheries of the social circle. This chapter synthesizes issues of opportunities and challenges for small and medium enterprises by carrying out a broad literature review and synthesis. Furthermore, the chapter will provide a few research hints to be applicable for researchers and research institutions.

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