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100			_aPal, Sanjay
245			_aOpen Innovation Benefiting Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises _cA Case of the Leather Cluster in Kolkata / Pal, Sanjay.
260			_c2013
300			_a327 - 338
520			_aIt is often argued that, in the beginning of the 20th century, firms relied heavily on closed innovation (Chesbrough, 2003) in order to improve their quality and productivity and discern business niche. The profit generated out of business operations was primarily used to support research and development in a virtuous circle of innovation. However, by the end of the 20th century, increased mobility of knowledge workers, rapid diffusion of information and growing availability of venture capital have caused the process of closed innovation in firms to start breaking up. Today, open innovation is increasingly becoming a paradigm that connects research from various areas of management science. Practitioners and experts have started believing that open innovation has a much broader domain of application than originally thought of. The objective of this paper is to look into the scope and use of open innovation, which has remained unexplored till date, in the leather cluster in Kolkata. Kolkata and Santiniketan are considered synonymous with the leather industry in West Bengal and this paper is based on primary data collected through structured interviews of the entrepreneurs...
650			_aEdi Faculty Papers
650			_aKolkata
650			_aLeather Clusters
650			_aClusters
650			_aInnovation
650			_aBarriers And Gateways
650			_aIncubation
650			_aInnovationays
650			_aInnovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurshi
650			_aEntrepreneurship
650			_a Tenth Biennial Conference On Entrepreneu
650			_aBiennial Conference Papers
773			_aTenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship _dFebruary
856			_uhttp://library.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/228
942			_cAR
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