SMES PERFORMANCE: ANALYSIS OF THE INNOVATION ROLE

Today the business environment is characterized by the globalization of markets, rapid technical developments, the reduction of the life of products and activities, the benefits acquired traditionally are no longer assets on which companies can count for develop. Companies must look for new options to diversify their offerings and markets, which contributes to their growth and development and to finding relevant answers to the question of survival that may threaten its continuity. Our paper aims to clarify the determinants of the success of some companies, especially SMEs, by focusing on the links between innovation and the organizational performance of SMEs. So, the purpose of this paper is to explore and better understanding the effects of organizational innovations, process innovations, product innovations, and marketing innovations on the organizational performance of Moroccan SMEs, based on an empirical study covering 3 SMEs operating in three different sectors

Exploring Open Innovation Practice in Start-Ups within an Innovation Ecosystem

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Écosystème d’innovation et opportunité entrepreneuriale : une première approche dynamique des acteurs,

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Écosystème d’innovation et opportunité entrepreneuriale : une première approche dynamique des acteurs,

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Innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial opportunity

International audienceEntrepreneurship as a field of study has attracted considerable attention from both researchers and practitioners in recent years. The field is structured around a certain number of paradigms (Verstraete & Fayolle, 2005), of which opportunity is one of the most prominent (Vekataraman, 1997; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000; Shane, 2003, 2012). This paradigm is construed as a three- step process, corresponding to the recognition, evaluation, and seizing of entrepreneurial opportunities. The objective of this research is twofold: first, to understand the different types of links connecting entrepreneurs to other actors in their innovation ecosystems which help them to recognize, assess, and seize entrepreneurial opportunities as well as to identify the major players within this ecosystem. To this end we present an exploratory qualitative study focusing on the key actors in the innovation ecosystem of the Loire department of France, in particular its institutions, support networks, and clusters.Our results reveal the existence of strong connections between the different actors which make up this ecosystem. Furthermore, the creation of strong bondsof trust between these actors is facilitated by their geographical and relational proximity. Actors collaborate on projects involving businesses, and start- ups in particular. All these elements combine to allow businesses to recognize and seize entrepreneurial opportunities

Écosystème d’innovation et opportunité entrepreneuriale : proposition d’une modélisation

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Écosystème d’innovation et opportunité entrepreneuriale : proposition d’une modélisation

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Innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial opportunity

International audienceEntrepreneurship as a field of study has attracted considerable attention from both researchers and practitioners in recent years. The field is structured around a certain number of paradigms (Verstraete & Fayolle, 2005), of which opportunity is one of the most prominent (Vekataraman, 1997; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000; Shane, 2003, 2012). This paradigm is construed as a three- step process, corresponding to the recognition, evaluation, and seizing of entrepreneurial opportunities. The objective of this research is twofold: first, to understand the different types of links connecting entrepreneurs to other actors in their innovation ecosystems which help them to recognize, assess, and seize entrepreneurial opportunities as well as to identify the major players within this ecosystem. To this end we present an exploratory qualitative study focusing on the key actors in the innovation ecosystem of the Loire department of France, in particular its institutions, support networks, and clusters.Our results reveal the existence of strong connections between the different actors which make up this ecosystem. Furthermore, the creation of strong bondsof trust between these actors is facilitated by their geographical and relational proximity. Actors collaborate on projects involving businesses, and start- ups in particular. All these elements combine to allow businesses to recognize and seize entrepreneurial opportunities