Sistemas locales de innovación y el desarrollo de la capacidad innovativa de las firmas: las evidencias del cuasi-distrito industrial de Rafaela

Gabriel  Yoguel; María López

doi:10.48160/18517072re15.704

Authors

Gabriel Yoguel Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
María López Fundación Potenciar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re15.704

Keywords:

innovation, industrial, regionalism

Abstract

Globalization, open regionalism added to the emergence of new techno-organizational paradigms are redefining the environment for the development of economic agents’ competitive processes. Systematic competitive factors and
the non-price elements of competitiveness are gaining increasing importance. This is a consequence of factors such as: the rising level of “strategic uncertainty”, demand segmentation, market volatility, changes in the concept of efficiency and the possibility to combine bothmultiple supply) and scale economies. These phenomena have galvanized in the form of new state regulatory and deregulatory measures which have enabled and improved international exchange between businesses and productive sectors. In this new scenario agents responses which focus on product differentiation, incremental
improvements (in products processes and organization) new ways to reach markets and quality assurance are earning increasing recognition. That is to say in the search for differentiation, which is now assumed to be a part of the
competitive process, agents aimed at increasing what shall be referred to as capacity for innovation. In this given context the goal of our study is to introduce a proxy indicator for economic agents potential for learning, creating “competences“, transforming generic into specific knowledge and hence their potential for innovating. This indicator for agents’ innovative capacity has been applied to a panel of Argentine firms representative of the quasi-district of Rafaela, where the given conditions generate a combination of externalities very rarely found in other locations throughout the country. The proposed indicator has been defined in absolute terms so as to allow comparisons among different environments and isolation of differences among firms’ capacity for innovation which may be ascribed to microeconomic differences among their agents. These differences, in turn, stem from the fact that the agents belong in local systems with differing externalities.

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