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Título: | Rvolta, a case for open innovation : how can a SME be innovative in a competitive industrial environment |
Autor(es): | Cardoso, Margarida Ramos, Isabel |
Palavras-chave: | Open innovation SME Pilot enterprises Networks Business management Interactions It and work processes Waste management industry |
Data: | 2013 |
Editora: | IGI Global |
Citação: | Cardoso, M. and Ramos, I. (2013). Rvolta, a case for open innovation. How can a SME be innovative in a competitive industrial environment, Hakikur Rahman and Isabel Ramos (Eds.), Cases on SMEs and open innovation: applications and investigations, Hershey: IGI Global: 82-99. |
Resumo(s): | Rvolta has been working in waste management industry for 16 years now. This SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) from Portugal is taken as a focus point for the case study addressing a network of partners working in various activities which became related, so as to disclose the underlying innovative spirit, strategy and partnership structure. Objectives of the present chapter are to portray and analyze a SME success case in open innovation (through various innovation practices), and clarify how knowledge creation and collaboration amongst different players in a network takes place. An exemplary collaboration episode is told. Framing issues are addressed so as to understand how they affect open innovation in SMEs. The study finds interactions, networking, and partnership connections, are important issues and indeed make a difference, thus enabling SMEs to innovate. This case evolved from an exploratory phase of an Information Systems PhD qualitative research, addressing open and crowdsourcing innovation. |
Tipo: | Capítulo de livro |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/25489 |
ISBN: | 9781466638877 |
DOI: | 10.4018/978-1-4666-3886-0.ch079 |
Versão da editora: | The original publication is available at http://www.igi-global.com |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
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