Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME
Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (SMME) businesses in manufacturing contribute significantly to the economic growth of a nation, yet most of the research on innovation management in manufacturing industries has been focused on big firms. The current study identifies factors in SMME’s that are comm...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Graduate School of Business (GSB)
2019
|
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613140769832960 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Rautela, Nikhil |
| author2 | Marks, Jonathan |
| author_browse | Marks, Jonathan Rautela, Nikhil |
| author_facet | Marks, Jonathan Rautela, Nikhil |
| author_sort | Rautela, Nikhil |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (SMME) businesses in manufacturing contribute significantly to the economic growth of a nation, yet most of the research on innovation management in manufacturing industries has been focused on big firms. The current study identifies factors in SMME’s that are common between the external and internal systems of innovation that supports firms in their management of innovation. The study gathered data through qualitative and quantitative interviews of 20 companies out of which 5 manufacturing firms in Western Cape, South Africa selected for this research. The study found that SMMEs acquire new knowledge from the external ecosystem to supplement their limited internal system based on the product or process development. This study identifies the common factors that the SMMEs can use as a guiding framework to pursue new innovative opportunities for development of product or process. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/29994 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:31:24.573Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2019 |
| publishDateRange | 2019 |
| publishDateSort | 2019 |
| publisher | Graduate School of Business (GSB) |
| publisherStr | Graduate School of Business (GSB) |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/29994 Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME Rautela, Nikhil Marks, Jonathan Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (SMME) businesses in manufacturing contribute significantly to the economic growth of a nation, yet most of the research on innovation management in manufacturing industries has been focused on big firms. The current study identifies factors in SMME’s that are common between the external and internal systems of innovation that supports firms in their management of innovation. The study gathered data through qualitative and quantitative interviews of 20 companies out of which 5 manufacturing firms in Western Cape, South Africa selected for this research. The study found that SMMEs acquire new knowledge from the external ecosystem to supplement their limited internal system based on the product or process development. This study identifies the common factors that the SMMEs can use as a guiding framework to pursue new innovative opportunities for development of product or process. 2019-05-10T10:46:21Z 2019-05-10T10:46:21Z 2018 2019-05-10T09:02:03Z Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29994 eng application/pdf Graduate School of Business (GSB) Faculty of Commerce |
| spellingShingle | Rautela, Nikhil Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME |
| title_full | Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME |
| title_fullStr | Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME |
| title_short | Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME |
| title_sort | identification of common factors of innovation in a smme |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29994 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT rautelanikhil identificationofcommonfactorsofinnovationinasmme |