Abstract

ELIZALDE-BOBADILLA, Lucy Carolina; ROJAS-SANTOYO, Francisca  and  OCHOA-URREGO, Rafael Leonardo. Non-R & D innovation in Colombia: An analysis from absorption capacity. suma neg. [online]. 2019, vol.10, n.23, pp.168-177. ISSN 2215-910X.  https://doi.org/10.14349/sumneg/2019.v10.n23.a9.

The present study examines the dynamics of absorption capacity, under the conception of Zahra & George (2002), according to which absorption capacity is composed by four dimensions: acquisition, assimilation, transformation and exploitation and two types of capacity: potential and realized. As a fundamental premise, is that activities not associated with R & D can generate absorption capacity and that innovation processes can be developed in this way. For this, the Survey of Development and Technological Innovation-EDIT 2015-2016 is taken as a source of information, on which 41 variables are selected that are analyzed through the PLS-PM - Path Analysis-Path Modeling technique. The results confirm that the dimensions of the absorption capacity have complementary roles and that there is a cumulative process, in which the last dimension (exploitation) represents a greater contribution to the explanation of the absorption capacity carried out.

Keywords : Non-R&D innovation; potential absorptive capacity; realized absorptive capacity; Colombian enterprises; statistical method..

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