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Standards for re-innovation in innovation-enabling business models of high-tech SMEs: a conceptual model of a capability-based view
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Vol.38(1-2), pp.135-163
2026
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Abstract
This conceptual paper offers a research agenda in examining the role of standards for innovation in high-tech SMEs’ business models from a capability perspective. This paper aims to address the research question, how are SMEs using standards in a new environment of rapidly emerging technologies to produce innovations and what are the new directions for research? A conceptual paper is needed to guide a new trajectory of research, especially given the speed of emerging technologies and the changing utility of technology standards on SME innovation. I make four contributions. First, I contribute to entrepreneurship literature as the paper provides new insights into how high-tech SMEs sustain efficient innovation by using emerging standards. Second, I contribute to business model literature as the study highlights how technology-based standards drive nuances in SMEs’ business model design. Third, I contribute to SME innovation literature as this paper extends the notion of re-innovation by shifting the focus from a value proposition perspective to a value capture view. Fourth, I make a methodological contribution by designing a novel multi-method approach by first undertaking a systematic literature review by employing a CIMO-framework as an analytical lens and then undertaking a more fine-grained abductive validation using empirical cases.
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- Title
- Standards for re-innovation in innovation-enabling business models of high-tech SMEs: a conceptual model of a capability-based view
- Authors
- Mark Loon (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Vol.38(1-2), pp.135-163
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.1080/08985626.2025.2556331
- ISSN
- 1464-5114; 0898-5626
- Copyright note
- © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991163999702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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