Towards the Innovation of High-tech Small-medium Enterprises (SMEs): The Interview Approach

Wei Xue, Victor Chang, Yijie Chen, Qianwen Xu

2020

Abstract

With the intensive global market competition, the Chinese central government is paying more attention to the innovation of SMEs, especially for high-tech SMEs. This paper conducts the interview approach to investigate the status of innovation and its importance to SMEs in Suzhou. R&D development requires innovation as a key element. Findings from interviewees are positive towards innovation. Innovation has been used throughout the SMEs – from strategies, marketing, products to services. This implementation makes SMEs in Suzhou more competitive than most other cities of China by offering positive thinking and dynamic inputs to produce more creative products and services. However, problems have been identified. Although SMEs are the main body of technological innovation, but it is difficult for them to survive. We plan to propose a framework that contains all factors influencing R&D and carefully set hypotheses. With our mixed-method approach in our future work, we present more results and analysis based on our findings.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Xue W., Chang V., Chen Y. and Xu Q. (2020). Towards the Innovation of High-tech Small-medium Enterprises (SMEs): The Interview Approach.In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Finance, Economics, Management and IT Business - Volume 1: FEMIB, ISBN 978-989-758-422-0, pages 129-135. DOI: 10.5220/0009489601290135

in Bibtex Style

@conference{femib20,
author={Wei Xue and Victor Chang and Yijie Chen and Qianwen Xu},
title={Towards the Innovation of High-tech Small-medium Enterprises (SMEs): The Interview Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Finance, Economics, Management and IT Business - Volume 1: FEMIB,},
year={2020},
pages={129-135},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009489601290135},
isbn={978-989-758-422-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Finance, Economics, Management and IT Business - Volume 1: FEMIB,
TI - Towards the Innovation of High-tech Small-medium Enterprises (SMEs): The Interview Approach
SN - 978-989-758-422-0
AU - Xue W.
AU - Chang V.
AU - Chen Y.
AU - Xu Q.
PY - 2020
SP - 129
EP - 135
DO - 10.5220/0009489601290135