TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Marco,Chiara Eleonora
AU  - Di Minin,Alberto
AU  - Duch-Brown,Nestor
AU  - Martens,Bertin
AU  - Marullo,Cristina
AU  - Nepelski,Daniel
AU  - Van Roy, Vincent
ED  - Comisión Europea
TI  - Digital platform innovation in European SMEs: An analysis of SME instrument business proposals and case studies - Study
SN  - 978-92-76-00776-0
SN  - 1831-9424
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Luxembourg
PB  - Publications Office of th European Union
KW  - Tecnologías habilitadoras digitales
KW  - Empresas
KW  - aid to undertakings
KW  - business model
KW  - digital technology
KW  - emprendimiento
KW  - European undertaking
KW  - small and medium-sized enterprises
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2760/57240
ED  - Comisión Europea
ED  - Centro Común de Investigación
ER  -