Exploring SME collaboration paths: a configurational analysis from the business innovation modes perspective in Spain

Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Sofia Estelles-Miguel, Francisca Sempere and Alejandro de Vega Unceta

European Planning Studies, 2025, vol. 33, issue 6, 945-963

Abstract: We study SME collaboration and networking from the ‘modes of innovation’ perspective, where STI (Science, technology – innovation) and DUI (learning-by-doing, -using and -interacting) represent typologies of knowledge generation, researching specific combinations of ‘conjunctive collaborations’ that, jointly developed, drive innovation. Our argument elaborates on a capability-based perspective to explain different SME collaboration paths to innovate. Using configurational thinking and applying cs/QCA method in 6315 SMEs in Spain, a moderate innovation country, findings show 12 different conjunctive collaboration paths representing modes of innovation driving innovation, mostly unobservable from traditional regression-based methods. These results offer valuable insights into collaboration and networking for SME innovation.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2025.2525491

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