Managing innovation for growth in high technology small firms

Kari Laine

doi:10.3990/2.268577723

Managing innovation for growth in high technology small firms

Kari Laine

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This paper studies ways to support sustainable growth in high technology small firms by managing innovation. The paper examines technology based and knowledge intensive business service firms (KIBS) and their innovation management in Finland. The goal is to find at least one meaningful innovation process for a small KIBS firm that takes growth into consideration. In the paper incremental, radical, disruptive, open and systemic innovation are seen from small KIBS firm perspective a model that combines these types of innovation is presented. Two cases of small technology based small KIBS firms are also selected to closer examination.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 16th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference 2008
Place of Publication	Enschede
Publisher	University of Twente
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9789036526685
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3990/2.268577723
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	16th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference, HTSF 2008 - Enschede, Netherlands Duration: 21 May 2008 → 23 May 2008 Conference number: 16

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Conference	16th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference, HTSF 2008
Abbreviated title	HTSF
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Enschede
Period	21/05/08 → 23/05/08

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Proceedings of the 16th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference and Doctoral Workshop 2008
Rossini, G. (Publisher), 2008, Enschede: University of Twente. 610 p.
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