“Perspectiva Empresarial” Magazine has published a new model that exposes factors that favor the development of IT innovation in manufacturing companies.

The authors, Javier Fernando Del Carpio Gallegos, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering.  Universidad ESAN; Francesc Miralles, PhD. from La Salle – URL; and Eduardo Javier Soria Gómez, Bachelor of Computer Statistics.  Universidad ESAN; explore in this article the design of a model that shows what factors favor the development of technological innovation in manufacturing companies of medium-low and low technological intensity. 

They question how did Peruvian manufacturing companies change their innovative behavior between 2012 and 2015? While aiming to explain relationships between, the absorptive capacity, technological innovation, non-technological innovation, the acquisition of machinery,  hardware, and software; and how non-technological innovation mediates the relationship between absorptive capacity and technological innovation.

The main contribution of this research work lies in a better understanding of  the relationship  of  absorptive  capacity, non-technological innovation, and technological acquisition  on technological  innovation, where it can be stated that non-technological innovation has a mediating effect between  absorptive 

Capacity and technological innovation. In a practical sense, managers of low or medium technological companies should support the absorptive capacity within firms looking to develop technological innovations as well as the investment in new technology viewed as an organizational change challenge. 

You can find the full article here: 

Analyzing the Medium-Low and Low- Technology Firms’ Innovative Behavior in an Emerging Economy, Journal: Revista Perspectiva Empresarial, 8(1), 36-54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16967/23898186.683