| Abstrakt: |
The entrepreneurial structure of Iberian countries is mainly composed by small and medium enterprises (SME). To overpass the actual economic crises it is important to innovate in order to add value to products and services. In this context, innovation can help these firms to become more competitive and cooperation for innovation activities could be a key factor, for instance, to gain economies of scale, share the risk and to achieve new knowledge. This paper studies the cooperation for innovation activities in Portugal and Spain, analysing how several variables, such as R&D intensity, firm size, marketing and sector can contribute to cooperative activities of firms. The research uses Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2008, micro-data) to Iberian countries and applied a logistic regression to study cooperation activities for innovation. We believe that the results obtained for these two countries provide important clues concerning different arrangements of cooperation activities and highlight some innovation patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
