Small is beautiful in the world of innovation. But while technology start-ups may be fleet of foot, it can be difficult for them to find time to look up from the task in hand and go prospecting for the support and finance needed to grow.
Yet Europe’s legions of SMEs now find themselves at the nodes of open innovation networks, responsible for teasing new research and technologies out of universities and developing them to the point where they are of interest to large corporations.
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