The majority of businesses within most economies are small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Academic and policy interest in SMEs has expanded over the past thirty years with small business research forming an important part of the development of entrepreneurship as a field of inquiry....

This study investigates the relationship between key organizational elements (inputs,knowledge management, innovation strategy, portfolio management, project management,and commercialization), business planning and the innovation rent. In order to deepen the understanding of innovation...

This study examines the innovation management practices of small firms in Australia, France and Switzerland. The focus was on how firm size, age and growth influence the commercialisation process. A sample of 143 firms was surveyed across the three countries. Findings from the study suggest that...

Les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) sont souvent caractérisées par un taux élevé d'innovation et un engagement marqué dans une démarche d'innovation comme moyen de construire un avantage concurrentiel. Il reste cependant difficile pour les managers de telles entreprises d'évaluer...

This study examines the findings of a survey of small, high innovator firms and their assessment of the risks and benefits of forming strategic alliances with third party "complementors". The study found that the entrepreneurs of these small innovator firms were willing to form strategic...

Chapter 1. Innovation and Commercialisation in Small Firms -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Foundations of the Book -- Chapter 3. The Decision to Innovate -- Chapter 4. Screening Opportunities -- Chapter 5. The Business Model and Innovation Strategy -- Chapter 6. Managing Uncertainty -- Chapter 7....

Chapter 1: The role of the small business within the economy -- Chapter 2: Entrepreneurs vs. owner-managers -- Chapter 3: Surviving the early years -- Chapter 4: Planning and strategy in the small firm -- Chapter 5: Creating customers -- Chapter 6: The process of growth in the small firm --...

Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship as a social and economic process -- Chapter 2: The Entrepreneur -- Chapter 3: The entrepreneurial process -- Chapter 4: Intrapreneurship -- Chapter 5: Innovation in small firms -- Chapter 6: Adoption and diffusion of innovation -- Chapter 7: Planning, business models...