Survey Details
 30 small to medium enterprises in Wood
 1 academic personnel performed the interviews
 Average time of interviews 20 to 30 min.

Human Resource for Questionnaire
 Local Working Group
 CRITT Bois
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VAN OOST Hervé
 LEMAITRE Marc
 DELMOITIEZ Marie
 Sélection Vosges
 KIENTZ Bernard

Activities
 The main activities that have been identified are :
 sawmill
 wood-working
 furnishing
 Most of them have a second activitie

Number of employees & Subcontracting
 From 2 to 200
 Subcontracting is not the main scope of the enterprises

Exports
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 Europe
 International

Company Management
Industrial Properties
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 1 patent (individual enterprise)
 1 drawing (enterprises grouped in a cluster )

Company Management
Management indicators
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Company Management
Organization
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Administration
 Exist in most of the enterprises
Marketing department
 Considered as necessary and represented by 5% of employees
R&D
 Is performed by a few of the SMEs
Information management & Design – Engineering
 Are not included in these enterprises

Company Management
Long life training & Employees education
 Long life training is performed internally in most of the SMEs for :
 1% budget, 4 days/year/employee
 Domains : safety, building, driver
 Employees education could not be answered by most of the enterprises

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Often mentionned
Not considered as of great interest
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Company Strategy
Orientation
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Company Strategy
Market
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0 area country europe
Wood sector market in the country is actually in progression

Company Strategy
Impulsion – Competitors - Constraints
 Impulsion
 1 year
 3 years
 10 years market partnership quantitative
 Competitors
 Local and national
 Competitors well known
 Constraints
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Technique : qualified personnel
Environment : legislation, regulation (VOC,…)

ligne numéris ADSL
Information System
Electronic Networks & Applications
Intranet Mail serveur
YES
Local Area Net work
NO

Information System
Press subscriptions
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 Professional & specialized magazines
 Scientific & technical publications
 Business press, Regional daily press
 National daily press
 International daily press

Innovation & Watch
Fields of survey
Regulations
Markets
Technologies
Competitors
Suppliers
Customers
Products
Process
Recruitment
Training
Financing aids ans subsidies
Management
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Innovation & Watch
Sources of information
Employees
Co-operation, alliances
Customers
Suppliers
Competitors
Universities, laboratories
Consultancy businesses
Professional associations
Public/private research institutions
Professional publications
Exhibitions
Internet
Local or area institutional
National institutional
European institutional
Not relevance Some relevance Average relevance Great relevance
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Innovation & Watch
Watch practice & Outsourcing
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In terms of watch, the SMEs questioned don’t have a formalized watch methodology
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Which tools of search for information ?
 Meetings, contacts
Which tools of management for information ?
 Writing OR speaking
Which tools of diffusion for information ?
 Writing OR speaking

Networks
Motivations
 Share competences
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Get new markets what you can’t get alone
 Diversify the customers
 Rationalize the purchases
 Develop the outsourcing
 Grow quantitative production
 Create a lobbying

Networks
Partnerships & Institutional
CRITT BOIS
UNIFA
INPI
CTBA
ENSTIB
PLAB
OPP BTP
Syndicat pat. BTP
CRITT Rodez
FFB
GIPEBLOR
CIRTES
MECANICA CGPME
Chbre Pat. Expl. For. 88 MEDEF
FNB
3iLorraine
ENSSTIN
BTP 57
AMFOP JEA
Chbre des métiers ANVAR
CG CCI
CRL
DRIRE
CRCIL