Liêda Amaral de Souza's blog

The innovation capability of SMEs…

Submitted by Liêda Amaral de... on Sat, 2010-04-17 22:37

How can people, IT tools, structure, culture, and power be connected in order to leverage collective abilities for applying available knowledge to solve problems and search for opportunities (organizational intelligence), accommodating new experience (organizational learning), and producing new ideas and things (organizational creativity) so that the group of organizational members can effectively contribute to the organizational well-being? You could answer some questions like these visiting the KMOWL web site. (http://www.kmowl.org/recent)

Tags: 
open innovation
risk management
SMEs

CREATIVE SME 2009 - Entrepreneurship in high tech startups

Submitted by Liêda Amaral de... on Mon, 2009-06-22 14:01

In a very dinamyc presentation Prof. Michael Dowling from University of Regensburg -DE told us about his research about entrepreneurship in high tech startups.
He told that the intensity of international competition in new technologies has increased dramatically in the last few years and a key success factor has become the ability of entrepreneurs to manage both new technologies and business opportunities. He presented some USA and Germany research projects, some real cases of entrepreneurs and success cases.

CREATIVE SME 2009 -Crowdsourcing Strategy to extend the innovation capabilitie of SMEs

Submitted by Liêda Amaral de... on Mon, 2009-06-22 13:22

21-jun-2009
Panel: It was a very dynamic panel and finished after the planned time.
Prof. Carl Adams (University of Portsmouth-UK) and Isabel Ramos (University of Minho - PT) presented the first panel.
At first Carl Adams began making a joke showing us two boxes and asking to guess how many sweets in each box and to write the answer on a paper. Each guess tried to answer how many sweets are there in each box.
After this exercise he asked guess what was and is crowdsourcing?