On Tuesday, I participated in a workshop sponsored by Intuit and Emergent Research, on the latest addition to their “Future of Small Business” series, Defining Small Business Innovation. The report authors, Steve King and Carolyn Ockels of Emergent Research, define innovation more broadly than many policymakers and academics. To them, more small businesses are innovators than even the owners might admit to. When they interviewed small business owners, many of them said that they did not innovate, but then they went on to describe various tweaks and processes that they had come up with to improve their firm or to better compete. Indeed, they were innovators (even if they did not know or want to admit it).
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