Abstract
Handling metadata and module-based capabilities are enablers for radical new ways of interaction within and between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in terms of innovation. A challenge in this often complex actor and interaction picture is that there can be organizational, process-related, financial and practical barriers which tend to reduce innovativeness. There is thus a need for methods which can provide dynamic and company-based innovation networks. This study investigates the main barriers for effective interaction and sharing of innovation capabilities within SMEs. The factors identified are individual, technological and organizational factors. The success of SMEs lies in overcoming all these barriers in order to ensure effective interaction and sharing of innovation capabilities through their networks. This study suggests the main conditions and elements which can contribute to overcoming the barriers against effective interaction on innovative capabilities among SMEs.
Highlights
Norwegian industry, and its land-based industry, is in an ever more demanding situation where competition is becoming fiercer and more complex
This study is based on two ongoing four-year long Norwegian R&D projects, Live Innovation Performance and Innovative Kraft (Power). These projects are financed by the Norwegian Research Council and the participating companies focusing among other things on collaboration and the shared use of companies' test facilities and the belonging competences of companies in order to find concrete solutions and mechanisms for integration of innovation processes
This section will point out the main conditions and elements which can contribute to overcoming the barriers against effective interaction on innovative capabilities among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Summary
Its land-based industry, is in an ever more demanding situation where competition is becoming fiercer and more complex. Interaction on innovation capabilities among SMEs result in increased access to resources and knowledge, more effective innovation processes and better products. This study is based on two ongoing four-year long Norwegian R&D projects, Live Innovation Performance and Innovative Kraft (Power). These projects are financed by the Norwegian Research Council and the participating companies focusing among other things on collaboration and the shared use of companies' test facilities and the belonging competences of companies in order to find concrete solutions and mechanisms for integration of innovation processes.
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