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SMEs’ Innovation and Export Capabilities: Identification and Characterization of a Common Space Using Data Spatialization

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  • Manon Enjolras

    (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine)

  • Mauricio Camargo

    (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine)

  • Christophe Schmitt

    (CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine)

Abstract

Numerous publications try to identify and test empirically the link between innovation and export to explain firms' competitiveness. But it seems that several ways of thinking coexist, without a real consensus. This article proposes a different approach, by considering innovation and export not in terms of impact of the one on the other, but rather as two complementary activities mobilizing common capabilities (resources, skills, knowledge). These common capabilities represent the capabilities that a company needs to mobilize as a priority to improve its performance regarding innovation as well as export. This article aims to identify the common spaces between innovation and export in terms of current practices within SMEs. Initially, the innovation and export practices were identified in the literature and through a set of interviews with business managers. Then an analysis of similarity put forward the common practices between the innovation and export processes. A data spatialization shows that the common practices concern at least: (1) network management, (2) consideration of the customer, (3) the acquisition of information, (4) skills management, (5) the capitalization of knowledge, (6) the global strategy, (7) the follow-up of the projects, (8) the intellectual property, and finally (9) the corporate culture.

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  • Manon Enjolras & Mauricio Camargo & Christophe Schmitt, 2016. "SMEs’ Innovation and Export Capabilities: Identification and Characterization of a Common Space Using Data Spatialization," Post-Print hal-02365821, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02365821
    DOI: 10.4067/S0718-27242016000200006
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    1. Manon Enjolras & Mauricio Camargo & Christophe Schmitt, 2020. "Evaluating Innovation and Export Capabilities of SMEs: Toward a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methodology," Post-Print hal-03000609, HAL.
    2. Fascia, Michael & fascia, sonny, 2019. "Creativity as a Competitive Entrepreneurial Enabler," OSF Preprints wqtvh, Center for Open Science.
    3. Fascia, Michael, 2019. "Evaluation of knowledge transfer practices from a Leibniz Perspective," OSF Preprints 37kd2, Center for Open Science.
    4. Manon Enjolras & Mauricio Camargo & Christophe Schmitt, 2019. "Are High-Tech Companies More Competitive Than Others? An Empirical Study of Innovative and Exporting French SMEs," Post-Print hal-02004952, HAL.
    5. Muñoz, Camila & Galvez, Daniel & Enjolras, Manon & Camargo, Mauricio & Alfaro, Miguel, 2022. "Relationship between innovation and exports in enterprises: A support tool for synergistic improvement plans," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).

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