TY - JOUR T1 - Are High-Tech Companies More Competitive Than Others? An Empirical Study of Innovative and Exporting French SMEs JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Manon Enjolras A1 - Mauricio Camargo A1 - Christophe Schmitt KW - export KW - innovation KW - multiple-case study KW - SMEs KW - technological intensity AB - The main objective of this research work is to question the relationship between the technological intensity of SMEs (defined by the share of R&D expenditure in turnover, according to the OECD) and their growth potential (defined by their innovation and export capabilities). Through a multiple case study conducted with a panel of nine French SMEs, and through an analysis combining a qualitative approach (illustrative cases study) and a quantitative one (multidimensional statistical methods), several hypotheses were tested. Finally, this study points out that technological intensity, as defined by the OECD, is not directly correlated with the growth potential of SMEs. On the other hand, a company’s technological intensity would have an impact on the way it manages its innovation and internationalization process, and thus the way it manages its internal practices. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1210 IS - 1 U1 - Université de Lorraine Manon Enjolras is a Researcher in Industrial System Engineering at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, where she is working on the innovation and internationalization capabilities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). She also holds a PhD from the Université de Lorraine in addition to an Engineering degree in Project Management and Innovation Management and a Master’s degree in Innovation Management, both from the Université de Lorraine’s Ecole Nationale Supérieure en Génie des Systèmes et Innovation (ENSGSI). Her main research interests are related to multicriteria decision-making and multivariate data analysis methodologies applied to SMEs, especially the capability evaluation metrics for innovation, internationalization, and the protection of industrial property. U2 - Université de Lorraine Mauricio Camargo is a Professor at the Ecole Nationale en Génie des Systèmes Industriels (ENSGSI) at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a PhD on Automatics of Industrial and Human Systems at the Université de Valenciennes et de Hainaut Cambresis in France. Professor Camargo’s main research interests are new product development, design-to-cost, and design and interdisciplinarity. His recent research concerns the application of multi-objective evolutionary techniques to evaluate product performance and innovativeness. U3 - Université de Lorraine Christophe Schmitt is a Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Université de Lorraine (IAE de Metz and CEREFIGE), he holds the research Chair “Entreprendre”, and he is responsible for PeeL (the Lorraine Student Entrepreneurship Pole). He is also an Associate Professor at the Louvain School of Management in Belgium and at the “Haute Ecole de Gestion” of Fribourg in Switzerland. His articles and books mostly concern the notion of value design and knowledge building for action as well as the development of entrepreneurial practices. ER -