Designing Open Innovation Based Product Development Process for SMEs using Mobile Technologies
Conference on Economies of Balkan and Eastern Europe Countries in the Changed World (EBEEC), Split, Croatia, 6 - 08 May 2016, pp.307-318, (Full Text)
- Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
- Volume:
- Doi Number: 10.18502/kss.v1i2.665
- City: Split
- Country: Croatia
- Page Numbers: pp.307-318
- Keywords: Mobile technologies, SMEs, Open innovation, Contestification, Product development
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
The use of technology in innovative product design process is becoming very accelerative all over the world. Following that, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) must practice innovative operations due to the fact that they have financial and technical incapabilities. In spite of all the essentialities, researches showed that research and development (R&D) expenditures of SMEs are under 5% in 2015. Focusing on SMEs, it was observed that R&D infrastructure of them is extremely weak. Research conducted in 2015 in Turkey, according to R&D expenditures of firms showed that first ten enterprises in the list were multinational, so not SMEs. Open innovation is very fundamental for SMEs to keep their competitive advantages. Nowadays, important multinational firms have left their closed structure about R&D and innovation practices. As a result of this; firms have started to behave accordingly to open innovation systems. In open innovation, all the external partners should participate in the business processes. However, there are not enough researches about it.