Innovation Transfer and Study Circles

The central theme of this study regards the transfer and absorption of innovation in small businesses. The problem concerns not only the relationship between enterprise and basic or applied research but also involves the opportunity for the entrepreneur and company employees to acquire the knowledge to permit the introduction of new technology and new solutions to the firm. The active dialogue, flexibility experienced and the birth of new ideas produced by the contagion of participants in the circle can, on the one hand, become transfers, changes and novelty by experience and action, yet on the other, sustain the sense of dialogue between peers and care for knowledge and the individual in the work place, the vehicles of a plural and jointly responsible citizenship that is open to the next person and the rest of the world