What is it about?
The objective of the paper is an attempt at the identification and assessment of factors stimulating and limiting the development of technological entrepreneurship and partnering in the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland. Meeting this objective required evaluation of factors and methods of technological entrepreneurship development among small and medium-sized companies in Poland (such as an open organizational culture), identification of barriers to the development of an open innovation organizational culture among small and medium-sized enterprises (such as inter-organizational partnering), along with formulation of practical recommendations for the development of technological entrepreneurship, an open organizational culture and partnering in specific enterprises (SMEs), both in terms of cooperation with the R&D, financial and local environment institutions, as well as the development of internal resources and competences to ensure the adaptation of enterprises to the requirements of modern technologies. The study was conducted in 2012–2013 on a sample of 300 small and medium-sized companies located in Poland
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Why is it important?
The importance of cooperation, partnering and innovation in development processes of enterprises is emphasized in many classical and contemporary concepts of entrepreneurship (Verloop 2006). Their significance in processes of the development of technological entrepreneurship and an open organizational culture is also highlighted (Albors-Garrigos and Barrera 2001). Therefore, the aim of the paper is an attempt to identify and evaluate factors stimulating and limiting partnering, as well as technological entrepreneurship, which in turn seem to determine the openness of organizational culture of small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises need to constantly identify factors affecting the development of inter and intra-organizational partnering, learn to communicate effectively with the environment, take the risk of cooperation (even with competitors—coopetition), as well as consciously build their organizational culture (especially on the basis of willingness to cooperate with the environment). At the same time, they should manage innovation processes so as not only systematically and optimally utilize but also deepen their technological entrepreneurship through these factors. These activities are likely to be the driving force for specific and yet very valuable feedback relationships between strategically implemented partnering and technological entrepreneurship. Partnering in this system allows to initiate technological entrepreneurship, which in turn strengthens and expands partnering relations in implementing organizations. The catalyst for these activities is an open organizational culture. The development of technological entrepreneurship in SMEs must therefore be strictly linked to a greater tendency of these companies to partner with the widely understood environment, in particular business environment institutions or research units.
Anna Adamik
Politechnika Lodzka
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This page is a summary of: The Technological Entrepreneurship Capacity and Partnering as Elements of an Open Culture of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Case Study of Poland, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27570-3_10.
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