Internationalising high-tech SMEs: advancing a new perspective of open innovation

Simba, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0276-8211, Tajeddin, M, Farashahi, M, Dana, L-P and Maleki, A, 2024. Internationalising high-tech SMEs: advancing a new perspective of open innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 200: 123145. ISSN 0040-1625

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Abstract

Choosing a foreign market entry strategy is known to be essential for firm internationalisation yet there is very little focus on the role, purpose, and value of open innovation for internationalising high-tech SMEs. A review of the international business, international entrepreneurship and international marketing literature combined with a bibliometric mapping of 2501 articles on firm internationalisation, suggests that research does not readily associate open innovation and the internationalisation of high-tech SMEs. This is regardless of open innovation's activities that can span over a firm's immediate geographical space. Thus, this study introduces new theoretical explanations and a midrange open innovation theory to advance open innovation as an alternative foreign market entry strategy especially for internationalising high-tech SMEs. This has theoretical and practical implications for academics, international business managers, and practitioners because it introduces an alternative internationalisation strategy for SMEs.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Creators:	Simba, A., Tajeddin, M., Farashahi, M., Dana, L.-P. and Maleki, A.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date:	2024
Volume:	200
ISSN:	0040-1625
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.123145 DOI S0040162523008302 Publisher Item Identifier 1849246 Other
Rights:	© 2023 the author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	03 Jan 2024 11:12
Last Modified:	03 Jan 2024 11:12
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50606

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