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Identifying innovation opportunities - using the internet to match universities with SMEs

  • Elly Philpott
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

This paper describes work conducted for i10 – a collaboration of 10 universities in the East of England. It describes the development of a proactive process to facilitate knowledge creation between universities and Small to Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) and the internet-based tool used for doing this. Knowledge created is measured using subsequent knowledge transfer activities and the knowledge creation process is analysed in the context of Nonaka's Socialisation-Externalisation-Combination-Internalisation (SECI) model. The outcomes are of value to other universities tasked with helping SMEs to innovate and those interested in the development and usefulness of online tools for facilitating knowledge creation and knowledge transfer. It is also of interest to any institution developing tools for SME-university interfaces, identifying innovation opportunities, innovation benchmarking and company profiling.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 285-303

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies (Volume 2, Issue 3)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2008

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2008

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/565026
  • Scopus: 84951715689

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