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Information, Inspiration, Innovation – Designing an Open Innovation Platform for SME Digital Transformation Projects

Academic Publikation
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Procedia Computer Science (Elsevier)
Konferenz / Full Research Paper
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When small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) pursue digital transformation (DT) projects, awareness for available solutions and exploration of best practices and collaboration opportunities belong to key activities. This short paper presents background, design and preliminary evaluation of an open innovation (OI) platform for SME DT, which showcases projects completed by collaborating expert institutions and offers new project pitches. Initial findings from user tests with SME practitioners indicate that the solution supports SMEs in DT exploration phases. Moreover, insights on SME OI platform design criteria are derived.