Critical factors for SMEs innovation performance in innovation networks

This paper studies the critical factors that SMEs should pay attention to when they managed their innovation networks to improve their innovation competences. We investigated 105 SMEs distributed in different industries with most of them in manufacture industry and got 204 valid questionnaires. The survey results show that there are 4 factors which influence SMEs innovation performance, i.e. partner selection, trust, CEO¿s commitment, and information technology. In these four factors, trust is the most important factor followed by partner selection.