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Acknowledgments

This book is drawn from the work of a French doctoral thesis on the topic “Methodology for analyzing the innovation and export capabilities of manufacturing and process SMEs: identification and characterization of a common space with a view to developing a multi-criteria decision support tool”, conducted between 2013 and 2016 at the ERPI laboratory of the University of Lorraine (located in France). They were financially supported by the UIMM, the F2I, the Lorraine regional council as part of the PRINCIP research chair as well as the InnovENT-E initiative of excellence (IDEFI). This thesis has paved the way for new research projects that also feed this book. They have themselves benefited from the support of the CNRS and the University of Lorraine (PEPS Mirabelle CIIPME project), as well as the Lorraine University of Excellence Initiative of the PIA2 from the French government (ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE).

First of all, I would like to thank the Research Network on Innovation (RNI), as well as the ISTE Group, for giving me the opportunity to publish this book by awarding me the Honoris Causa prize for the promotion of research in the study of innovation. It is a real pride to see our thesis work valued in this way and a great opportunity to continue to develop it within a long-term research project.

I would also like to thank the ERPI laboratory of the University of Lorraine for allowing me to carry out this thesis and for allowing me to build my research path on a daily basis within its team. I would also like to express my gratitude to my two thesis directors, Mauricio Camargo and Christophe Schmitt, without whom none of this would have been possible.

I would like to thank all the practitioners and institutions that agreed to participate, in one way or another, in this work and to devote some of their precious time to it. Thanks to the different laboratories that have been kind enough to welcome me during these last years, allowing me to give an international dimension to this research work: INRPME Trois Rivières, HEG Fribourg, the Industrial Engineering Department of the USACH, the University of San Juan and the National University of Cuyo.

Finally, I would like to warmly thank my family and friends who have always supported me in my projects, both professional and personal.