Foresight for SMEs: How to Overcome the Limitations in Small Firms?

Konstantin Vishnevskiy (), Dirk Meissner and Olga Egorova ()
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Olga Egorova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: This paper describes an approach to foresight for SME enterprises. Foresight has become a frequently used tool for technology and innovation management generally limited large corporations. Presumably this is mainly due to the complexity of the corporate foresight concept itself and the need to invest substantial resources. To overcome this challenge and make corporate foresight also applicable for small and medium sized enterprises an adjusted methodological approach is developed taking into account the special requirements and limitations of SMEs. Based on an analysis of best practices for the development of theoretical and methodological approaches to foresight for SMEs an approach is developed taking into account the limitations of financial, human and time resources inherent to SMEs is introduced.

Keywords: corporate foresight; SMEs; roadmapping; innovation; scenarios (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O18 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-ger, nep-ino and nep-sbm
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Technology and Innovation / STI, August 2015, pages 1-18

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