Chapter 12 Managing Innovation for Growth in High Technology Small Firms

Abstract

This chapter studies ways of supporting sustainable growth in high technology small firms by managing innovation. The chapter examines technology-based and knowledge-intensive business service firms (KIBS) and their innovation management in Finland. The goal is to find at least one meaningful innovation process for a small KIBS firm that takes growth into consideration. In this chapter, incremental, radical, disruptive, open and systemic innovation are seen from a small KIBS firm perspective and a model that combines these types of innovation is presented. Two cases of high technology-based small KIBS firms are also selected for closer examination.

Citation

Laine, K. (2012), "Chapter 12 Managing Innovation for Growth in High Technology Small Firms", Groen, A., Oakey, R., Van Der Sijde, P. and Cook, G. (Ed.) New Technology-Based Firms in the New Millennium (New Technology Based Firms in the New Millennium, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 173-185. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-0228(2012)0000009014