Résumé : |
Open innovation has been widely studied for large companies. The aim of this paper is to list all the problems encountered by French SMEs in an open innovation process, to identify the major problems and to find solutions to overcome them. A literature review gave me a broad overview of the difficulties a company can encounter in open innovation, and thanks to a study of several SMEs, the following five major concerns were found: Unbalance between open innovation activities and daily business, Lack of internal skills to support open innovation, Culture and employee resistance, Not finding the right partner, Paradox of disclosure. For each issue, a list of best practices was created. |