L’espace en tant que facilitateur d’innovation ouverte en PME: le cas du Demos Lab

Romane Gardet, Anne-Laure Saives and Annie Camus

Innovations, 2022, vol. N° 67, issue 1, 69-102

Abstract: This article presents an exploratory research carried out in a young Norwegian SME focused on sustainability that has made open innovation its sole operating mechanism. We focused on the SME?s project of building a creative and innovative physical space to host its projects. Using a Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process and projective techniques with a dozen of potential users, we found out the most relevant settings among 6 key dimensions drawn from the extant literature: singularity, organized-organizing, flexibility, heterogeneity, third-placeness, and exemplarity. Our results from this case study show an obvious link between the physical work environment and management practices and highlight the importance of 3 spatial and managerial settings in favor of an ?open? creativity to pave the way for open innovation in a sustainable context: singularity/authenticity, organizing to support mastery and natural design to support inclusiveness. JEL Codes: M10, M13, M54, O30, O31, O32

Keywords: SME; Open Innovation; Open Creativity; Collaborative Spaces; Durability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M10 M13 M54 O30 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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