Innovation processes of the Finnish SMEs : corona challenges speed up innovations
Brandt, Tiina; Vahtera, Hannu; Harmaala, Minna-Maari (2021)
Brandt, Tiina
Vahtera, Hannu
Harmaala, Minna-Maari
Editoija
Matos, florinda
de Fátima, Maria
Rosa, Àlvaro
Salavisa, Isabel
Academic conferences international
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022020317479
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022020317479
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This research studies innovation processes of companies during the corona crises. Interest was to see if the corona as disruption impacted companies’ innovativeness, sources of innovations and motivation of entrepreneurs. The studied entrepreneurs were applied and received 110 000 euros support for new developments from the Business Finland during the year 2020. Altogether the seventeen entrepreneurs of various fields were interviewed. Results indicated that part of the entrepreneurs developed totally new functions due to the corona crises. Benefits of crises were partially new aspects to businesses were found and also development of the business was fast. All the entrepreneurs said that development was part of the company’s daily work and despite the crises the possibility to innovate gave to them motivation to work.