Digital platform innovation in European SMEs. An analysis of SME Instrument Business Proposals and Case Studies

Chiara Eleonora De Marco (), Alberto Di Minin (), Cristina Marullo and Daniel Nepelski
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Chiara Eleonora De Marco: Haas School of Business, Garwood Centre for Corporate Innovation, UC Berkeley, CA-US
Alberto Di Minin: Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

No JRC115240, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: The study explores how European SMEs applying to the SME Instrument (SMEi) funding scheme under Horizon 2020 innovate use the digital platform business model. The study demonstrates a widespread awareness of the digital platform concept as a tool to be applied to gain momentum and growth, taking advantage of the digital affordances. The main challenges to scale-up include how to manage external communities and orchestrate them in order to build innovation ecosystems; how to find a profitable business model; and secure funding for growth. Firms located in peripheral regions face additional difficulties in finding complementary resources.

Keywords: digital platform; innovation; SME; H2020; SME Instrument; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 73 pages
Date: 2019-03
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