Innovation Adoption in Smes : Cloud-Based Collaborative Design

The evolution of manufacturing and design concepts used in Industry 4.0 involves the connectivity and digitalization of production means. This paper aims to identify factors and characteristics of collaborative design technologies with cloud tools and relate them to innovation adoption factors in SMEs. The methodology was based on content analysis of a portfolio of papers drawn from a systematic literature review (SLR) designed to identify characteristics of product development with computer-aided design systems with cloud technologies in SMEs. Content analysis identified factors that were related, positively or negatively, to the characteristics of Frambach and Schillewaert's (2002) model for technology adoption