SME open innovation implicating factors in different innovation phases

The present study focuses on the open innovation impact factors on different phases of open innovation to create qualitative basis for quantitative research within SME-s. Study has been provided in three countries with different economies and cultures that were comparable by pair: Sweden and United Kingdom as representatives of nnovation-driven economy and Estonia and Sweden as representatives Northern European culture. The main factors like connection of the innovation processes with market innovation manager’s personal capabilities and public sector innovation policy were identified by majority of experts in all three countries. Experts did not have common view about importance of the intellectual property commercialization capability for open innovation.