Determinantes de la capacidad de innovación de los negocios emprendedores en España

Abstract

espanolAunque disponemos de evidencia empirica reciente que demuestra el proceso de internacionalizacion acelerada de las empresas start-up, todavia carecemos de estudios que analicen el comportamiento innovador de las empresas jovenes espanolas. Este estudio investiga el efecto de factores internos y externos de la empresa en su propension a innovar, mientras esta atraviesa su fase critica de infancia. Los resultados de nuestros tests sobre una muestra creada con datos del proyecto Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM, e INE indican que aspectos del capital humano del emprendedor, asi como del entorno sectorial y geografico en el que se desenvuelve el nuevo negocio, son fundamentales para mejorar su propension a innovar. Ademas, esta propension se acentua conforme la empresa adquiere mas edad y se internacionaliza. EnglishWhile literature has already shown some preliminary theoretical foundations and empirical evidence on accelerated internationalization, yet little is known on innovation-related behaviour of Spanish young ventures. This study is an attempt to test the effects of internal and external factors on the propensity to innovate of young ventures while they struggle during their early stages. We used data from the GEM project (Global Entrepreneurship Project) and INE (i.e., Spanish Institute of Statistics) to test our study propositions. Our findings suggest that the human capital of the entrepreneur, as well as industry and location related firm external factors seem to be relevant to explain the propensity of young ventures for innovation. Furthermore, this propensity becomes larger as ventures get older and enter foreign markets.

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