2. • SMEs in the Age of Innovation
• Rationale and Benefits of Management of
Innovation
• Determinants of Innovative Behavior within
Organization
• Barriers, Challenges and their Possible Solutions
3. • Major source of entrepreneurship and innovation.
• Backbone in many economies.
• Main generators of employment for large number
of people.
• Contributes to growth and GDP of an economy is
significant.
• Constitute for a massive 99.7% of the enterprises
worldwide.
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6. Auto-Component
The scope is limited in product innovation
as SMEs work in Tier system and mainly
supply to OEM/Large enterprises.
Information Technology
The scope of innovation is wide because of
use of technology in the other sectors.
7. Pharmaceutical
The scope is limited in product innovations
because of the high investment involved in
the innovation and less resultant output.
Textile (Garment Manufacturing)
The scope of product innovation varies in
different sub-sectors.
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9. Create new and differentiating market
opportunities.
Gain competitive edge over others.
Better market share.
Faster transformation in to large
enterprises.
10. • General Electric perfected Thomas Edison’s most
notable invention, the industrial research laboratory.
• DuPont - Capital-Budgeting Techniques.
• Proctor and Gamble - Brand Management..
• VISA, the world’s first near-virtual company, owes its
success to organizational innovation.
• Linux, the computer operating system, is the best-known
example of a open source development.
14. • Listen and Explore – What can we can together?
• Learn and Adjust – How will we learn together?
• Focus and Align – What should we do together?
• Link and Leverage – What will we do together?
21. • Resource Related, e.g. lack of internal funds,
technical expertise or management time,
culture and systems.
• Human Nature Related, e.g. attitude of top
manager to risk or employee resistance to
innovation.