Thibaut Métailler is Assistant Professor at Mines Saint-Etienne since october 2016. He defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Institute of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology UMR 7317 in Aix en Provence in 2015. His thesis is focused on knowledge management (KM) in technological SME to innovate. His research assumes the role of the collaborators as expert in knowledge acquisition and development to competitiveness and innovation. It aims to show that the HR management processes in these SMEs are in fact more akin to a KM that is non-formalized but deliberated and integrated into the activity and the organization.