Innovation Environment in Small Technology-Based Companies

Innovation has been identified as a strategy to achieve competitive advantage, particularly in contexts of change and especially for technology-based companies - TBCs. Although the adoption of innovation strategies is not easy, small companies have an organizational environment more conducive to inn...

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Autores principales:	Gonçalves Silveira Fiates,Gabriela, Azevedo Fiates,José Eduardo, Ribeiro Serra,Fernando A, Portugal Ferreira,Manuel
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2010
Materias:	innovation technology companies incubators multicase
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description	Innovation has been identified as a strategy to achieve competitive advantage, particularly in contexts of change and especially for technology-based companies - TBCs. Although the adoption of innovation strategies is not easy, small companies have an organizational environment more conducive to innovation. This article examines how managers and employees of small TBCs perceive aspects of the internal environment of innovation in the organization (culture, organizational structure, personnel and infrastructure) and their suitability for the innovation process. This is a qualitative research from a multicase study on five companies located in an incubator. Data were collected through open interviews, using a semi-structured script, with one of the managers and two employees from each company. Data were analyzed from preliminary content analysis. The results showed some discrepancies between the perceptions of managers and employees about the issues investigated and their suitability for the innovation system, as well as between reality and the theoretical basis used.
author	Gonçalves Silveira Fiates,Gabriela Azevedo Fiates,José Eduardo Ribeiro Serra,Fernando A Portugal Ferreira,Manuel
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title	Innovation Environment in Small Technology-Based Companies
title_short	Innovation Environment in Small Technology-Based Companies
title_full	Innovation Environment in Small Technology-Based Companies
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publisher	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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Innovation Environment in Small Technology-Based Companies

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