%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2020 %T Digitalization, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Internationalization of Micro-, Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises %A Annaële Hervé %A Christophe Schmitt %A Rico Baldegger %K digital entrepreneurship %K digitalization %K Entrepreneurial Orientaton %K international entrepreneurship %K MSMEs %X Nowadays, we are living in a digitally connected global economy that is completely transforming trade in foreign markets and exposing firms, particularly micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), to major changes and new opportunities. As the use of digital technologies is creating more fluidity and nonlinearity across time and space in entrepreneurial processes, our research adopted a conceptual process to investigate how the digital transformation of MSMEs will support decision-makers in international businesses. Based on a quantitative research design, we demonstrate that the more a company digitalizes its functions, the more it favours entrepreneurial behavior to lead successful strategic decisions in foreign markets. Our results are discussed in detail and we propose several ways to benefit from opportunities arising from the use of digital technologies. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 10 %P 5-17 %8 04/2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1343 %N 4 %1 Université de Lorraine Annaële Hervé is a PhD candidate at the Université de Lorraine. Her thesis addresses the research streams of digitalization and internationalization of MSMEs. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management as well as a Master degree in Entrepreneurship. She is also working part time at the research department of the School of Management Fribourg in Switzerland. Her main research interests are digital transformation of firms, digital business model as well as international entrepreneurship. %2 Université de Lorraine Prof. 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 School of Management 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. %3 School of Management Fribourg Prof. Rico Baldegger is Director and Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), Switzerland. He has studied at the Universities of St. Gallen and Fribourg, Switzerland. His research activities concentrate on innovative start-ups, the entrepreneurial behavior of individuals and organizations, as well as the phenomenon of rapid-growth companies. He has published several books and articles and, since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been the manager of a business for company development. Moreover, he is a business angel and serial entrepreneur, as is demonstrated by the many companies he has created. %& 5 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1343 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2020 %T Editorial: Digitalization and Internationalization (April 2020) %A Christophe Schmitt %A Rico Baldegger %K business network hubs %K businessmodel %K coaching %K digital entrepreneurship %K digitalization %K digitalmarketing %K entrepreneurial orientation %K export practices %K facilitators %K impacts %K international entrepreneurship %K internationalization %K liability of foreignness %K MSMEs %K network view %K scaling %K SME internationalization %K SMEs %K support institutions %K training %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 10 %P 3-4 %8 04/2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1342 %N 4 %1 Université de Lorraine Prof. 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 School of Management 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. %2 School of Management Fribourg Prof. Rico Baldegger is Director and Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), Switzerland. He has studied at the Universities of St. Gallen and Fribourg, Switzerland. His research activities concentrate on innovative start-ups, the entrepreneurial behavior of individuals and organizations, as well as the phenomenon of rapid-growth companies. He has published several books and articles and, since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been the manager of a business for company development. Moreover, he is a business angel and serial entrepreneur, as is demonstrated by the many companies he has created. %& 3 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1342 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2020 %T Internationalization and Digitalization: Applying digital technologies to the internationalization process of small and medium-sized enterprises %A Annaële Hervé %A Christophe Schmitt %A Rico Baldegger %K digital entrepreneurship %K digital technologies %K digitalization %K international business %K internationalization %K SMEs. %X Digitalization is playing an increasingly important role in the growth of firms and is leading to structural and strategic transformations. The use of digital technologies presents new opportunities for SMEs to expand and succeed in foreign markets. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the impact of digital technologies on the internationalization process of SMEs has been acknowledged in the literature. It offers an in-depth analysis of five of the most highly relevant recent scientific research papers. The findings are synthetized through key points that highlight how SMEs acting in foreign markets could benefit from digital technologies. This paper complements previous research on the international trade transition initiated by digital technologies and provides a new perspective on contemporary research regarding the internationalization of firms. It concludes by identifying implications for research by scholars seeking to further study the digital aspects of traditional theoretical models of internationalization. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 10 %P 29-41 %8 07/2020 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1373 %N 7 %1 Université de Lorraine Annaële Hervé is a PhD candidate at the Université de Lorraine. Her thesis addresses the research streams of digitalization and internationalization of MSMEs. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management as well as a Master degree in Entrepreneurship. She is also working part time at the research department of the School of Management Fribourg in Switzerland. Her main research interests are digital transformation of firms, digital business model as well as international entrepreneurship. %2 Université de Lorraine Prof. 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 School of Management 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. %3 School of Management Fribourg Prof. Rico Baldegger is Director and Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), Switzerland. He has studied at the Universities of St. Gallen and Fribourg, Switzerland. His research activities concentrate on innovative start-ups, the entrepreneurial behavior of individuals and organizations, as well as the phenomenon of rapid-growth companies. He has published several books and articles and, since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been the manager of a business for company development. Moreover, he is a business angel and serial entrepreneur, as is demonstrated by the many companies he has created. %& 29 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1373 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2019 %T Are High-Tech Companies More Competitive Than Others? An Empirical Study of Innovative and Exporting French SMEs %A Manon Enjolras %A Mauricio Camargo %A Christophe Schmitt %K export %K innovation %K multiple-case study %K SMEs %K technological intensity %X 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. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 9 %P 33-48 %8 01/2019 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1210 %N 1 %1 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. %2 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. %3 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. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1210