IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/xpe/journl/v3y2019i7p23-37.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Incidencia de la investigación y desarrollo y el capital humano en el desempeño innovador de las empresas industriales ecuatorianas

Author

Listed:
  • Orly Carvache Franco

Abstract

The research aims to examine the relationship between internal and external research and development(R&D), and human capital with the innovative performance of manufacturing companies in Ecuador. It is a quantitative, non-experimental and cross-sectional study that uses the data of the last survey of innovation activities of the year 2015 developed by the INEC. Research contributes to empirical evidence in developing countries where evidence is scarce. The results of the research indicate that Internal and External Research and Development is significantly related to product and process innovation, while no significant relationship was found between internal and external R&D expenses with product and process innovation. Regarding human capital, the results show that the stock of knowledge represented by the number of workers is related to the innovation of products and processes, while workers with higher education are significantly related to product innovation and training expenses. of innovation activities relate significantly only to process innovation. The results of this investigation are of practical utility of Managers and Administrators of the industrial companies that can increase the innovative potential of their companies through increasing the R&D in their companies and increasing the Human Capital.,

Suggested Citation

  • Orly Carvache Franco, 2019. "Incidencia de la investigación y desarrollo y el capital humano en el desempeño innovador de las empresas industriales ecuatorianas," X-pedientes_Economicos, X-pedientes Económicos, vol. 3(7), pages 23-37.
    • Handle: RePEc:xpe:journl:v:3:y:2019:i:7:p:23-37
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ojs.supercias.gob.ec/index.php/X-pedientes_Economicos/article/view/39/37.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:xpe:journl:v:3:y:2019:i:7:p:23-37. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jose Guerra Cedillo (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.