La organización del proceso de innovación en la empresa española
ISSN: 0422-2784
Any de publicació: 2008
Títol de l'exemplar: La innovación en la economía y en la empresa
Número: 368
Pàgines: 169-185
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Economía industrial
Resum
The aim of this paper is to analyze the way in which technological activity is organized in Spanish innovative companies. Founded on a comprehensive literature review of previous theoretical and empirical research, an original proposal to characterize the innovative process is presented. Such scheme distinguishes six qualitative characteristics: objectives, methods of generation, types of R&D, sources of information, ways of appropriation of the results and types of innovations. This scheme is applied on a sample of 152 Spanish innovative companies, thus providing evidence of the type of innovative process followed by Spanish firms. The paper also shows the existence of significant differences in the innovative process according to the developed types of innovations. Key words: innovative firms, technological innovation, typologie, technological management, Spain