The IS role in leveraging the intelligence and creativity of SME’s, Guimarães, Portugal

Abbrevation

CreativeSME

Link

http://creativesme.dsi.uminho.pt/publication.htm

City

Guimarães

Country

Portugal

Start Date

2009-06-21

End Date

2009-06-24

Abstract

<P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 14.25pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>The SMEs importance has often been underestimated both in the European Union and the United States. Several factors concur to this situation:</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 50.25pt; TEXT–INDENT: –14.25pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: ′Times New Roman′; unicode–bidi: embed; language: en–US″>a)</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 8pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>SMEs do not attract the same degree of attention from the mass media;</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 50.25pt; TEXT–INDENT: –14.25pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: ′Times New Roman′; unicode–bidi: embed; language: en–US″>b)</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 6.5pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>It is difficult to identify the total number of SMEs, mainly because of the difficulty to define consensual criteria to characterize a company as small or medium enterprise;</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 50.25pt; TEXT–INDENT: –14.25pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: ′Times New Roman′; unicode–bidi: embed; language: en–US″>c)</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 6.5pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>SMEs have specific characteristics that make sometimes difficult to define in what industrial sector the company should be included (either because of the innovative character of the products it manufactures/sells or because it places itself within several industrial sectors simultaneously).</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 50.25pt; TEXT–INDENT: –14.25pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: ′Times New Roman′; unicode–bidi: embed; language: en–US″>d)</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 6.5pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Many SMEs lack the financial resources needed to safely undertake initiatives aim at adopting very innovative practices/technologies or to free human resources to collaborate in research projects.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 14.25pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>This situation leads to the small attention paid by academic research to SMEs in relation to the much higher attention to the problems faced by big companies and multinationals. Furthermore, the existing research addressing the specific problems and opportunities faced by SMEs is often of low quality.</SPAN></P><B></B> <P><B>Keywords:</B> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 49.5pt; TEXT–INDENT: –13.5pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed; language: x–none″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 7.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Innovative frameworks for improving the learning and creative abilities of SMEs.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 49.5pt; TEXT–INDENT: –13.5pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed; language: x–none″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 7.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Coordination of knowledge and expertise in SMEs</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 49.5pt; TEXT–INDENT: –13.5pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed; language: x–none″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 7.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Impact of organizational, economic and social issues specific of SMEs on initiatives to improve the learning, memory and distributed cognition.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 49.5pt; TEXT–INDENT: –13.5pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed; language: x–none″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 7.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Discussions on new research approaches to study knowledge management in SMEs.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 49.5pt; TEXT–INDENT: –13.5pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed; language: x–none″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 7.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Innovative system’s architecture that support distributed cognition, transactive memory, attention, identity formation, and learning in SMEs.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 49.5pt; TEXT–INDENT: –13.5pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed; language: x–none″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 7.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Empirical studies of successful and unsuccessful adoption of knowledge management systems in SMEs;</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 49.5pt; TEXT–INDENT: –13.5pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed; language: x–none″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 7.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Specific issues of knowledge transfer between SMEs and systems to support it;</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 49.5pt; TEXT–INDENT: –13.5pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed; language: x–none″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 7.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Innovation models for SMEs;</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style=″MARGIN–TOP: 2pt; MARGIN–LEFT: 50.25pt; TEXT–INDENT: –14.25pt; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%″><SPAN style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; DIRECTION: ltr; FONT–FAMILY: Symbol; unicode–bidi: embed″>·</SPAN><SPAN style=″WIDTH: 8.75pt″> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en–US style=″FONT–SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE–HEIGHT: 150%; language: en–US″>Knowledge management best practices for SMEs;</SPAN></P>