Opinion

December 1, 2020

SMEs need to step up to the corporate innovation challenge

Innovation might sound like it is too expensive for small companies — but done right, it takes less resource than R&D.


Laurent Kinet

4 min read

In a Medium post last month, I wrote that corporations and large companies were the most innovative bodies on earth. It may sound counterintuitive, but corporations are the cornerstones of startup ecosystems. Selling to a larger corporation — or doing a substantial deal with them — can be a key part of the entrepreneurial journey. Low levels of venturing mean few ecosystems, and few ecosystems mean low innovation.

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