Web Intelligence Meets Extenics: New Frontiers of Innovation for Small and Middle Business

Innovation is important but many of them rely on skilled persons which are scarce in most small& middle business (SMB). Obtaining enough information and knowledge then processing them effectively is two key factors for innovation. Web Intelligence (WI) can provide enough knowledge; meanwhile Extenics provides a novel methodology to process knowledge to support innovation process. So we present a WI and Extenics combined knowledge management model to aid innovation process and obtained satisfactory results. By briefly demonstrating the potentials of WI-Extenics-based Innovation research, we believe that integrating WI with Extenics will be a novel research issues for innovation in SMB.