Digital platform innovation in European SMEs An analysis of SME instrument business proposals and case studies - Study European Commission. Joint Research Centre ; De Marco, Chiara Eleonora; Duch-Brown, Nestor; Marullo, Cristina; Nepelski, Daniel; Roy, Vincent van; Di Minin, Alberto; Martens, Bertin
.-- Luxembourg Publications Office of th European Union 2019
.-- 72 p.
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 resource
978-92-76-00776-0
1831-9424
10.2760/57240 doi
Tecnologías habilitadoras digitales Empresas
aid to undertakings business model digital technology emprendimiento European undertaking small and medium-sized enterprises
De Marco, Chiara Eleonora Di Minin, Alberto Duch-Brown, Nestor Martens, Bertin Marullo, Cristina Nepelski, Daniel Van Roy, Vincent