Promoting SME Innovation Through Collaboration and Collective-Intelligence Network in SMEs: The PMInnova Program

Abstract

The necessity of SMEs of collaborating together to be competitive again, is mandatory in any European country. Two main perspectives for SMEs to become stronger and stronger: force their collaboration in the project, test and obtain products of high technological level and sophisticated style; inhabit managers to share knowledge, skills and abilities, in order to create a collective intelligence. This is the objective of the PMInnova Program (that means: SME innovation), a strategic agreement between Politecnico di Torino and Gruppo Bancario Cassa di Risparmio di Asti, Biella and Vercelli, dedicated to supporting SMEs both in their innovation projects and in participating in European projects. The work will present some results of the PMInnova Program, for companies in which the use of IoT, AI, and Big Data has been the condition for the creation of the aforementioned collective-intelligence.