the Palo Alto Research Center and Bell Labs offer models of captive innovation labs.. sme incubators provide support infrastructure to free entrepreneurs to engage innovation and create market driven enterprises... is the innovation process a competitive advantage that sme's are reluctant to share?

The ‘search and select’ and the ‘adapt to my case/build for my case’ processes are time consuming, even in an on line platform, and the adaptation part requires a customized activity which has to be added to the shared one. Interaction from the platform also to this customized part might be critical, especially if considering small firms. Again, allocate time to this activity knowing that it can pay back, have the adequate employee who can interact on the web might be some of the main obstacles to be faced.

ecosystems have a lot to do with connecting people - networking activities involving the different stakeholders in such a network, facilitating them to share best practices and develop collaboration, is most efficient here. The Accelerator Assembly recently launched in a great initiative in this context - similar activities should be encouraged these should be interconnected rather than completely in parallel.