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Investment in theinformation technology (IT) has been evaluated at different levels and with different approaches. This article aims to show laimportancia creating value through IT investment. however, it is convenient to consider the difficulties we may encounter in conducting our analysis, particularly when trying to estimate the intangible benefits.

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This study attempts to design an approach showing how absorptive capacity and ambidexterity are related to technological innovation in Peruvian manufacturing firms. A structural equation model is proposed. The sample is made up of 783 manufacturing firms. It was found that although Peruvian manufacturing firms invest little money in research and development, they are capable of developing dynamic capabilities, such as absorptive capacity and ambidexterity in order to better carry out technological innovation.

Firms strive to develop technological innovations. This study focuses on two main objectives: to identify the relationship between market and institutional networks and technological innovation; and to analyze the relationship between the obstacles that firms assess when developing innovations. The literature shows that there has been little interest in researching innovation in emerging economies, in which there is a greater presence of low-technology intensity firms that also develop technological innovations. Using data from 705 Peruvian manufacturing firms, a partial structural equation model was applied. The results showed that when firms are linked to networks, their capacity for technological innovation improves.

Food firms are an important part of Latin American economies, and they face an increasingly competitive context due to their customers’ demands. For this reason, the main objective of this study is to empirically verify how inbound open innovation and absorptive capacity have a positive influence on technological innovations in Peruvian food firms. A model was designed that shows the relationship between the constructs, and it is based on a sample of 111 food firms that participated in the third national innovation survey of the manufacturing industry and knowledge-intensive service firms carried out in 2018. The present study contributes to the literature in the following two ways: First, it contributes to the research of the food industry, which is an industry representative of low-tech intensity industries that lack research; second, it aims to deepen the knowledge about the positiv...

Despite their limitations, small and medium-sized companies with low and medium low technology intensiveness set themselves the challenge of improving their innovation capacity. Therefore, a probit model is proposed to study whether there is a positive effect of their external sources of market and technological knowledge on their ability to innovate in products. A sample of 826 companies listed in the National Poll on Innovation of Peru were examined. The results confirm a positive effect of external sources of knowledge, which favors the innovation of their products. These findings can help agencies promoting innovation to better focus policies to address the needs of small and medium enterprises in emerging economies.

Objetive. Design a model that shows what factors favor the development of technological innovation in manufacturing companies of medium-low and low technological intensity. Methodology. A sample of 1106 manufacturing companies that participated in the innovation surveys in 2012 and 2015 was used, applying the partial structural equations approach and estimating the invariance between the two groups. Results. The results of this study from the structural model, which allow obtaining the positive and statistically significant coefficients, which allow empirically validating the hypotheses. Conclusions. It was evidenced that non-technological innovation, absorption capacity and technological acquisition favor technological innovation in companies with low technological intensity. This article confirms that manufacturing companies should guide efforts to improve their capacity for innovation...

Non-technological innovation, including organizational and marketing innovation, has attracted substantial interest from researchers. The present study focuses on how external sources of knowledge relate to product, organizational, and marketing innovation, as well as analyzing how product and organizational innovation mediate the relationship between external sources of knowledge and marketing innovation. Current studies on marketing innovation do not present its real impact and importance for manufacturing companies. Using data from 557 Peruvian manufacturing companies that possess lower technological intensity, a model of partial structural equations was applied. The results show that external sources of market knowledge are related to product and organizational innovation. Managers should promote product innovations that favor the development of marketing innovations in the company.

Open innovation has garnered considerable attention from scholars over the last decade, particularly in low technology-intensive sectors, including the food business. This sector significantly influences the gross domestic product of developed and emerging nations and plays a crucial role in creating jobs. Our study used a quantitative structural equation method on 1,384 Colombian food enterprises. The findings suggest that employing the incoming open innovation strategy, enhanced by absorptive ability, promotes product innovation development in food firms. Empirical evidence demonstrates that absorptive capacity partially mediates the link between incoming open innovation and product innovation. Food firms should enhance their engagement with customers, suppliers, competitors, colleges, and consultants to expand their knowledge base. They also improve their absorptive ability, enabling ...

Latin American manufacturing firms must develop innovations to be competitive. For this reason, this research has two objectives: first, to analyze how connections with customers, suppliers, competitors, and research institutes are related to absorptive capacity, and, second, to demonstrate the existing relationship between absorptive capacity and technological innovation. A theoretical model was developed to show the relationship among the variables. The structural equation modelling was applied through AMOS software to a sample of 1,098 Peruvian manufacturing firms that participated in the second national innovation survey carried out in 2015. This study contributes to the literature on how firms relate with collaboration networks to improve their innovation capacity. In this way, firms obtain knowledge by applying the inbound open innovation approach. This knowledge is processed throu...

More emphasis should be given to companies that do not carry out research and development activities. In this regard, this research has set as objectives to analyze the relationship between non-technological innovations and technological innovations; the second objective, analyze how activities not related to investment in research and development, allow the development of technological innovations; The third objective is focused on analyzing how external knowledge sources are associated with technological innovations in low and medium technological intensity companies (L&LMT) Based on a sample of 834 Peruvian L&LMT manufacturing companies, and through the implementation of a logistic regression model PROBIT the hypothesis were analyzed, it was confirmed that non-technological innovations influence technological innovations, that many activities such as the acquisition of machinery favor...

Manufacturing companies strive to be innovative and thus competitive. These companies are very important in an emerging economy due to its contribution to a country’s gross domestic product and the generation of jobs. Therefore, the objective is to identify what are the internal and external factors that improve the innovation capacity of Peruvian manufacturing companies and, in turn, favor their competitiveness. A qualitative approach was applied based on the Glaser six-C model, which is part of the grounded theory, and the managers of the Peruvian manufacturing companies were interviewed. From the analysis and processing of this data with Atlas ti qualitative analysis software, it was found that suppliers and customers provide valuable information to innovate, and that the application of the design and the acquisition of machinery favor the innovations of these companies. To that ext...

Greater attention should be given to low- and medium-low- tech companies in emerging countries because they contribute a significant share of GDP and employment in their economies. However, innovation practices of these companies have not taken yet the attention of innovation scholars. This article proposes a model to study how absorptive capacity, perceived impact of information sources and expenditure in acquisition of technology are associated with technological innovation practices in Peruvian low- and medium-low-tech manufacturing companies. A sample of 856 manufacturing companies of low- and medium-low- tech was obtained from the first National Survey of Innovation in the Manufacturing Industry carried out in 2012. A SEM model is proposed and has been analyzed using a partial least squares approach. Our study reveals that absorptive capacity is associated to improve technological i...

Objective. To evaluate the relationship between information sources and absorptive capacity and how this capacity improves a company's innovative performance. Methodology. The study presents evidence based on a sample of 212 Peruvian P-ESICs and 355 T-ESICs. The research applied a structural equation model approach using the AMOS software; while the PROCESS software was used for the mediation analysis. Results. It was found that when ESICs are exposed to internal, market, institutional, and other sources of information, they are in a better position to develop innovations. However, this condition is not sufficient, since it is necessary to develop dynamic capacity (called absorptive capacity). Conclusions. This study contributes to a better understanding of the innovative behavior of ESICs in an emerging economy such as Peru, since it takes into account that emerging economies have diffe...

There has been a growing interest in the study of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) due to the important role that they play in the business processes of their clients. Even though extant literature assumes that KIBS firms are innovators, there is evidence that not all KIBS are equally innovative. Our exploratory research uses data gathered from the National Survey of Innovation in the manufacturing and KIBS industries and uses the LOGIT model on a sample of 311 Peruvian KIBS firms. The effects of innovation activities, employee level of education and the sources in the supply chain on developing innovations are determined. Findings indicate that not all innovation activities positively affect innovation. We found that most of these activities are related to technological innovation, rather than non-technological innovation, and the hiring of graduated personnel favours the de...