Semantic Innovation Management System for the extended enterprise

Innovation Management is crucial for enterprises to survive and succeed in a competitive environment. Due to the distributed and heterogeneous characteristics of innovation information, it is difficult to implement a satisfying and cost effective innovation management system for the extended enterprise. However, the development of semantic web technologies brings a new way to solve this problem. In this paper, a framework for a Semantic Innovation Management System (SIMS) based on metadata harvesting technologies and RDF access technologies is presented. A practical case study developed using RDF Gateway is also presented. Our work demonstrates the feasibility and potential to adopt semantic web technologies to improve innovation management across extended enterprises.