The correlation between internationalization and creativity: An exploratory study of Canadian SMEs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research evaluates the internationalization process of small enterprises from Canada and identifies the point where a creative act occurs. It suggests a holistic view and a better understanding of the correlation between internationalization and creative thinking. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with sixteen small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Canada and six representative organizations in order to collect reliable quality data that define a model explaining this correlation. The enterprises operate in six industry sectors: gaming, artificial intelligence, information and communication technology, cleantech, life sciences and consumer goods. The case study approach was used to investigate the phenomenon in a real-life context and to present a conceptual framework that generalizes the findings. Consequently, this study finds that the process of creative thinking takes place when opportunities and cultural, economic and legal barriers appear during the internationalization process. The findings presented have implications for policy-makers, for consultants in international trade and for education systems. Challenging times and contexts of uncertainty require a creative mindset that will help the enterprise navigate safely and make the best decisions when unexpected events occur.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".