Purpose – Several studies have investigated the factors affecting innovation in medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at different levels. However, research into the characteristics of the entrepreneur (individual level) in social economy enterprises (SEE), and the relationship to innovation is...

The author states that the Market Research Society may have to take on the job of making it clearer what the role of researchers is, since the individual may be in no position to do so. Researchers must be seen as experts on what is not on what to do about it . Despite the demand for them to...