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If you are interested in scientific articles and books, here are a few of them. Three authors Wim Vanhaverbeke, Ine Vermeersch and Stijn De Zutte cover Flanders region with useful advices for the SMEs. http://www.flandersdc.be/en/study/open-innovation-smes-how-can-small-companies-and-start-ups-benefit-open-innovation-strategies

Since small and medium enterprises usually have limited resources, they often have problems to innovate on their own. Open Innovation helps SMEs to be better in what they do, allowing them to use external partners to grow together. An idea or a new technology is, therefore, acquired faster and cheaper than if the SME had […]

Since “innovation” means to have something new that works in practice, companies need to somehow acquire that “new”. When they are unable to invent a new product, process or activity by themselves, companies turn to external sources in order to get a new idea that could help them improve. This means that companies need to […]