Patterns of technological change among Spanish innovative firms: the case of the Madrid region

Abstract This study is concerned with the examination of the configuration of the innovatory process of a very significant group of firms located in the Madrid region. The analytical perspective has its basis on the existence of a wide variety of possibilities in the innovation process and is linked to the recent tradition of evolutionary theories of technological change. The empirical research starts by identifying the firms which can be classified as innovatory; the analysis, basically made from the findings of a questionnaire sent to these firms, contains three basic elements: first, a study of the main structural characteristics of the firms; second, an analysis of the way in which technological activities are developed in those firms; and, third, a taxonomy of cases following the concept of ‘technological regimes’.

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