Digital platform innovation in European SMEs
An analysis of SME Instrument Business Proposals and Case Studies
The study explores how European SMEs applying to the SME Instrument (SMEi) funding scheme under Horizon 2020 innovate use the digital platform business model. The study demonstrates a widespread awareness of the digital platform concept as a tool to be applied to gain momentum and growth, taking advantage of the digital affordances. The main challenges to scale-up include how to manage external communities and orchestrate them in order to build innovation ecosystems; how to find a profitable business model; and secure funding for growth. Firms located in peripheral regions face additional difficulties in finding complementary resources.
DE MARCO Chiara Eleonora;
DI MININ Alberto;
MARULLO Cristina;
NEPELSKI Daniel;
DUCH BROWN Nestor;
MARTENS Bertin;
VAN ROY Vincent;
2019-03-08
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC115240
978-92-76-00776-0 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 29690 EN,
OP KJ-NA-29690-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC115240,
10.2760/57240 (online),
Additional supporting files
| File name | Description | File type | |
|---|
