The innovative activity of foreign subsidiaries in the Spanish Innovation System: An evaluation of their impact from a sectoral taxonomy approach

Molero, José; García, Antonio Navarro

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2008.03.005

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“…Thus, we need to explore whether the factors that typically lead manufacturing firms to achieve product and/or process innovations (i.e., 'manu facturing related' factors) will also exert an impact on the generation of service innovations. Despite the relatively recent availability of this data source, it has already been used by many other researchers (Molero and García, 2008;Un and Montoro Sá nchez, 2010;Vega Jurado, et al, 2009;among others). Moreover, given that the TIP is a CIS type database, it has been used both by policy observers to provide innovation indicators and trend analyses, and by economists to analyse a variety of innovation related topics.…”

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Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from Spain

2012

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a b s t r a c tThe ways in which manufacturing firms come to offer services to customers servitisation or servicisation are attracting considerable attention. This paper examines an innovation survey of Spanish firms in order to investigate one aspect of this phenomenon: the introduction of new or improved services by manufacturers. Specifically, the paper analyses the determinants of service innovations in manufacturers and determines whether they differ from those of product or process innovations in these same firms. The study finds that almost 20 percent of the firms in the sample have introduced such services in the recent past and that important differences exist between service and product (goods) innovations, with service innovations being particularly related to human resource development and closer links to customers. This suggests that service innovation by manufacturers has much in common with the innovation patterns detected in service sector firms. Intriguing differences across manufacturing sectors are also noted, with the lowest and highest tech sectors reporting more service innovations than the medium tech sectors.

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Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from Spain

2012

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“…Varios autores (20,24) han utilizado la base de datos PITEC para avanzar en la comprensión de la innovación en las empresas, así como en la relación entre las diferentes estrategias innovadoras, pero aún no hay trabajos que analicen el comportamiento eco-innovador de los sectores industriales españoles, por lo que en esta investigación nos planteamos analizar el comportamiento medioambiental de las empresas productoras de azulejos y baldosas cerámicas.…”

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“…Por otra parte, al examinar la estructura interna de la empresa y, teniendo en cuenta que ésta estará relacionada con su evolución (44,45,53), así como con su tamaño, la pregunta de investigación que se nos plantea es sobre si esta variable puede suponer un obstáculo a la eco-innovación (24,43,48,49). Sobre esta base, se postula la siguiente hipótesis, H2: El tamaño de la empresa determina la orientación hacia la innovación sostenible de la empresa.…”

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Â¿Eco-innovación, una evolución de la innovación? Análisis empírico en la industria cerámica española

Segarra‐Oña¹,

Peiró-Signes²,

Pastor³

et al. 2011

Bol. Soc. Esp. Ceram. Vidr.

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La innovación y el desarrollo sostenible se consideran motores económicos cruciales en la fijación de la posición competitiva de las empresas. La eco-innovación, entendida como relación sinérgica entre ambos conceptos, debe ser un elemento a considerar en el diseño de la estrategia de las empresas. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cuáles son las variables que determinan que las empresas innovadoras vayan más allá y consideren la mejora del impacto ambiental como un objetivo al desarrollar actividades innovadoras. En este trabajo se analizan las empresas pertenecientes al sector cerámico español. Los datos provienen de la base de datos PITEC. El documento identifica los factores moderadores que influyen en el comportamiento eco-innovador de las empresas. Palabras clave: Eco-innovación, Medio ambiente, Sector cerámico. Eco-innovation an evolution of innovation? Empirical analysis at the Spanish tile ceramic industry.Innovation and sustainable development are considered to be economic drivers and crucial in fixing competitive position of companies. Eco-innovation, known as a synergic relation among both concepts must be an element to consider when designing the company´s strategy. The objective of this paper is to analyze which are the variables that determine that innovative companies go beyond and consider the improvement of their environmental impact as an output when developing innovating activities. This research considers firms belonging to the Spanish tile industry. Data has beeen provided by PITEC Database. The paper identifies the moderating factors that influence the eco-innovative behavior of firms.Keywords: Eco-innovation, environment, ceramic industry. IntroduccIónLa relación positiva entre la innovación y la competitividad se ha estudiado de manera amplia (1, 2, 3, 4). La innovación genera beneficios asociados a los costes, la productividad o el acceso a nuevos mercados (5, 6,) y representa un aspecto clave de la competitividad (7, 8) y el crecimiento (9). Estos impactos positivos explican el interés de la literatura académica por identificar los factores que contribuyen a la mejora y al fomento de la innovación (10, 11).La innovación y la sostenibilidad son dos conceptos que por separado impactan en la posición competitiva de las empresas (12) y que, juntos, actúan de forma sinérgica (13) generando, por un lado, nuevos mercados para los productos ambientalmente benignos (14) y un nuevo campo de estudio académico, la eco-innovación (15,16,17,18). La intersección entre la empresa y el medio ambiente está transformando los mercados existentes, creando nuevos y, cada vez más, incluyendo los principios de sostenibilidad en las estrategias de negocio empresariales (19).Las empresas han identificado los beneficios de la conducta innovadora (7,20) pero, ¿qué se necesita para pasar de conductas innovadoras a un comportamiento eco-innovador?, ¿Qué aspectos determinan que las empresas que crean valor a través de la innovación tengan un enfoque proactivo hacia Vol 50, 5, 253-260, Septiembre-Octubre 2011 I...

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“…2 Previous studies using this taxonomy have already proved its usefulness: Molero and Garcia, 2008;García, Molero and Rama, 2015. [1]…”

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Patterns of local R&D cooperation of foreign subsidiaries in an intermediate country: innovative and structural factors

Sánchez

Zayas

Dellepiane

2017

IJTTC

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We attempt to contribute to a better understanding of cooperative innovation patterns of foreign subsidiaries (FS) in Spain as a representative intermediate country, going deeply into three main aspects: firstly, a sectoral taxonomy which combines international technological dynamism and revealed technological advantage as a way to understand such patterns. Secondly we focus our attention on innovative intensive subsidiaries, assuming they are the most important ones for hosting countries. Thirdly, we combine innovation and structural-competitive variables to explain local cooperation. We found more intense cooperation of FS with local agents in dynamic specialization sectors, as well as the fact that this is mostly carried out in a complementary mode with inner knowledge capabilities of the companies. Cooperative activities are influenced by economicstructural factors of the Spanish economy, particularly in highly innovative companies. Cooperative strategies of domestic firms might also have an influence on those of foreign subsidiaries. Index

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The innovative activity of foreign subsidiaries in the Spanish Innovation System: An evaluation of their impact from a sectoral taxonomy approach

Cited by 45 publications

References 22 publications

Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from Spain

Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from Spain

Â¿Eco-innovación, una evolución de la innovación? Análisis empírico en la industria cerámica española

Patterns of local R&D cooperation of foreign subsidiaries in an intermediate country: innovative and structural factors

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