Abstract
Existe actualmente en la literatura de las ciencias de la gestión un interés cada vez mayor entre investigadores y académicos en la utilización de la colaboración como una estrategia empresarial, sobre todo en los países en vías de desarrollo, y su relación con las actividades de innovación. Asimismo, el concepto de la colaboración y su potencial aplicación en las actividades de innovación de las empresas, preferentemente de las pequeñas y medianas, es un tema que muy poco se ha analizado y discutido. Por ello, el objetivo de este estudio empírico es analizar la relación existente entre la colaboración y las actividades de innovación en las pequeñas y medianas empresas localizadas en el Estado de Aguascalientes. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la colaboración tiene efectos positivos y significativos en las actividades de innovación de las pequeñas y medianas empresas.
Collaboration and innovation activities in SMEs
Abstract
At present, in the literature review on management science there is a growing interest between researchers and academics in collaboration as a business strategy, even more in countries under development, for example México, and its relation with innovation activities. At the same time, the collaboration concept and its potential application in innovation activities in companies, especially in small and medium enterprises is a topic poorly analyse from this angle in the current research. Therefore, the objective of this empirical study is to identify the current relationship between collaboration and innovation activities in small and medium enterprises based in Aguascalientes, México. The results obtained, and explained in this paper, have demonstrated that there is a positive and significant impact on small and medium enterprises innovation.
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