SMES CONTRIBUTING TO COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS FOR INNOVATION
A MATURITY ASSESSMENT OF THEIR ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY
Keywords:
Technology SMEs, Collaborative Networks, Collaborative Innovation, Absorptive Capacity, Maturity ModelsAbstract
Technology SMEs increasingly engage in Collaborative Networks (CNs) to access valuable knowledge for innovation. By deploying their absorptive capacity (ACAP), they attempt to integrate this new knowledge necessary for their contribution to CNs. This ACAP varies according to the SME’s embedding context, for instance in terms of roles, environmental turbulence, and cognitive distance with the network members. Despite ACAP’s importance for such SMEs, no study guides them towards the relevant way to deploy it for their participation in the common innovation goal. Hence, we propose a grid-based maturity model allowing technology SMEs to evaluate their ACAP considering their embedding contexts in CNs. We follow a Design Science approach using both qualitative and quantitative methods to plan and develop the model. We provide theoretical contributions on the nature of these SMEs’ ACAP and practical implications on how to deploy it to reach the innovation goal.
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