Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations

Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations

Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: November, 2011|Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 296
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-314-0
ISBN13: 9781613503140|ISBN10: 1613503148|EISBN13: 9781613503157
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Innovation has become a key success factor for economic development and a prerequisite for sustainable development. In a complex and highly competitive global environment, enterprises have to innovate and develop commercially viable products and services faster than ever before.

Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations reviews applications of open innovation concepts and strategies for SMEs development by accommodating theoretical perspectives and case studies. This book covers diverse aspects of open innovation in terms of policy, politics, economy, and culture, making it a useful reference for researchers, practitioners, and academics.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Competitive Advantage
  • Crowdsourcing in SMEs
  • Growth Management
  • Innovation 2.0
  • Innovation and Success in the Food Service Industry
  • Innovation Marketing
  • Open Innovation and Organizational Capacities
  • Open Innovation in France
  • Risk and Crisis Management
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In a very near future, the days are not too far away when a majority of the world population will enter into the arena of knowledge economy. Entrepreneurship, depending on virtual connotation will grow, and especially, businesses incorporating open innovation strategies will flourish, specifying trust, confidence, competition, interaction, and sharing, leading to value gain. In spite of availability of cases and practices in the aspect of SMEs development through open innovation, this book has tried to accommodate a few exceptional cases covering various business dimensions.

– Hakikur Rahman, University of Minho, Portugal, and Isabel Ramos, University of Minho, Portugal
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Hakikur Rahman, PhD. an academic over 30 years has served leading education institutes and established various ICT projects funded by ADB, UNDP and World Bank in Bangladesh. He is currently serving as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Minho in Portugal. He has written/edited over 20 books and contributed over 100 articles/papers in journals, magazines, news paper and conference proceedings on computer education in ICTs, education and research. Graduating from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1981, he has done his Master's of Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1986 and completed his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Ansted University, BVI, UK in 2001.
Isabel Ramos is an Assistant Professor at Information Systems Department of University of Minho, Portugal. She coordinates a research group in Knowledge Management. She also has research work in the field of requirements engineering. Isabel Ramos is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction and Secretary of the IFIP TC8 (Information Systems). Her research and teaching interests include: requirements engineering, knowledge management, organizational theory, sociology of knowledge, history of science, and research methodology. She is responsible for the user studies in two funded R&D projects. Isabel Ramos is author of more than three dozen scientific papers presented at international conferences and published in scientific and technical journals. She advises the work of several PhD and Master students.
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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Derya Altunbas, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
  • Ángela-Jo Medina, Financial Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, USA 
  • D.C. Misra, eGov Researcher and Consultant, India
  • Ken Stevens, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
  • Kam Hou Vat, University of Macau, Macau