Firms as source of variety in innovation: Influence of size and sector

• Published in: International entrepreneurship and management journal 2011-09, Vol.7 (3), p.357-372
• Main Authors: Caceres, Rafael, Guzman, Joaquin, Rekowski, Marek
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Behavior; Business and Management; Collaboration; Correlation analysis; Discriminant analysis; Emerging Markets/Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Forschung und Entwicklung; Industry; Innovations; Innovationsbereitschaft; Innovationsfähigkeit; Investition; Knowledge; Learning; Management; Qualifikation; R&D; Research & development; Research centers; Sevilla; Size of enterprise; Spanien; Studies; Taxonomy; Technological change; Unternehmen; Unternehmensgröße; Variables; Wirtschaftssektor
• ISSN: 1555-1938; 1554-7191; 1555-1938
• DOI: 10.1007/s11365-011-0198-8

"This article seeks to fulfill two main objectives. It firstly seeks to identify and quantify characteristics and behaviors of firms that are associated with what, in the evolutionary stream, is known as variety in innovation. A factor analysis is applied with a view to establishing, from a sizeable group of variables related to business innovation, the main factors or sources of variety in innovation in firms. The second goal is to estimate the influence of two variables that have been traditionally related to innovative firm activity on each of these sources: size and sector. The results of the analysis show seven important sources of variability in innovation for firms and that the influence of size and sector of activity on innovation occurs, at different levels of intensity, through these sources. The empirical analysis is based on the responses given for managers of a representative sample of enterprises in a personal interview." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Befragung. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2006 bis 2006.