Innovation Efficiency and Open Innovation: An Application to Activity Branches in Spain

• Autores: Rocío Guede Cid, María A. de Vicente y Oliva, Jaime Manera Bassa, Alberto Romero Ania
• Localización: Open innovation in firms and public administrations: Technologies for value creation / Carmen de Pablos Heredero (ed. lit.), David López Berzosa (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-1-61350-341-6, págs. 175-190
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter aims to analyze the innovation efficiency in Spain by activity branches and to relate the obtained results with the way in which the branches innovate. The conclusions show how the branches with high levels of open innovation activities perform better in terms of innovation efficiency even with low rates of closed innovation (internal R&D activities). This result led us to think of open innovation as a fundamental factor for innovation efficiency.

    To analyze the efficiency, the authors choose a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) approach applied to the principal components of the set of inputs and outputs separately and they introduce a new stage at the end of the process to study the robustness of the efficient branches. This study of the robustness adds the fact of not applying DEA to the original inputs and outputs, but to the principal components of these two sets separately.