Claudio Cruz-Cázares

University of Barcelona | UB · Department of Economics and Business Organization

Accelerator programs are emerging in recent years as a new model of startup assistance. However, despite the rapid proliferation of such programs, academic literature on the topic is surprisingly scarce. In particular, previous literature has neglected to investigate how the open environment provided by startup accelerators can enhance the innovati...

Responsible innovation has always been an important issue in discourses addressing the major challenges faced by humankind in terms of natural resource degradation, climate change, economic progress and societal well-being. However, its integration into industry is still in its infancy, and even more so when it comes to small and medium-sized enter...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to analyze the influence of the diversity of information and the use of Web 2.0 applications on the web positioning of online business information providers. Design/methodology/approach A total of 203 online business information provider websites were selected using three search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bin...

In a dynamic environment where organizations are continuously exposed to change, being robust, strong and competitive is a major managerial task. The aim of this article is to study the impacts of adopting multiple certifications on firm performance, by considering the dynamics involved in this process. A sample of 247 Portuguese firms that had ado...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse a firm’s internal and external drivers of formal and informal open innovation (OI) practices. To enrich the analysis and to obtain more robust results, the authors checked the study’s hypotheses using samples from two European regions, Navarre (Spain), classified an innovator follower, and Noord-Brab...

Purpose – The aim of this article is to research into the effects of multiple certifications on firms’ financial performance by considering the dynamics involved in this process. Design/methodology/approach – 243 Portuguese companies that had adopted multiple certifications by 2015 among ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 were analyzed with their...

In a global and highly competitive environment, innovation is becoming riskier and costlier. Against this backdrop, firms are challenged to allocate their innovation resources efficiently to obtain the most benefits. To this end, integration of management systems and open innovation are internally- and externally-oriented managerial practices, resp...

In an increasingly competitive world driven by fast changes, companies are challenged to pursue sustainable development through innovation. This matter has led to the discussion about how organizations manage to innovate in a way that they meet the demands of sustainability. Recently, researchers have identified the integration of management system...

p class="Abstract">The current model of competency-based learning requires new tools that allow students to develop these competencies and become active subjects of their learning (rather than passive receivers of a contents). Gamification or ludification is becoming an innovative trend in many areas, also in higher education. Games can provide a u...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the knowledge into the relationship between open innovation (OI) and firm’s innovative performance. Specifically, the authors aim to determine whether the benefits of OI practices are different for Food and Beverage (FnB) firms as compared to those of other sectors. The FnB industry is relevant in term...

Purpose The lack of a standard definition and data sources makes it hard to compare findings and advance our knowledge in the business angel’s domain. The purpose of this paper is to tackle this problem by presenting a proposal of a potential definition of business angels that it based on ten issues identified in 30 years of business angels’ resea...

The purpose of this article is to find how Quality Innovation and Innovation Quality interact as inputs and outputs of the innovative process from the efficiency perspective, in order to obtain sustainability in the firm performance, by considering the role of Integration of Management Systems (IMS) as an important driver of such efficiency. This i...

The emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) as international locations for foreign direct investment in R&D is a sign that multinationals are relocating their technological activities to new territories. This trend may weaken the supremacy of the developed countries until now considered leaders in innovation, and may mean the loss of th...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the level of integration of management systems (IMS) over product and process innovation capabilities (IC), by considering the role of open innovation (OI) activities as a moderating effect of those relationships. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal empirical study was perform...

This chapter examines the level of innovation and the degree of openness of Spanish agri-food firms and how the firms' openness affects their innovation performance. With a sample of Spanish agri-food firms and using three dimensions of openness: breadth and depth of information sources, breadth of co-operation agreements and external R&D expenditu...

The aim of this paper is to increase our knowledge of a firm's innovative behaviour by jointly analysing its internal resources, industry characteristics and appropriability conditions as drivers of its R&D strategy selection: make, buy and make-buy. Based on panel data (1992–2005) covering 1539 Spanish manufacturing firms, results show that firms...

This paper proposes a new approach to tackle the innovation–performance relationship. It addresses the, so far, mixed and inconclusive results of studies analyzing this relationship. We argue that the undifferentiated use of innovation inputs and outputs to measure firm innovativeness is not without problems, and that, from a productive perspective...

The aim of this study is to analyse whether the receipt of public R&D funding determines firm's R&D strategy selection. This issue is crucial, as previous studies have shown that each R&D strategy is associated to a higher, or lower, innovation performance. We consider three R&D strategies – make, buy, make–buy – and three different sources of publ...

Nowadays firms are not able to achieve all innovation in-house due to the specific set of technologies required by most products and processes, obliging firms to access external knowledge. In this context, the aim of this chapter is two-fold with the final goal of increasing our knowledge on firm innovating behavior. First, this chapter analyzes th...

The aim of this research is to ascertain the effects of the different R&D strategies (RDSs) — defined as make, buy and make-buy — on firm innovative performance. In order to evaluate RDSs effects in a broader sense, and looking for robust results, we consider different measures of product and/or process innovations as indicators of firm innovative...

In order to understand the determinants of the innovation sourcing strategy, a multinomial logistic model and one-way ANOVA were used to analyze a sample of 11778 innovative and non-innovative firms, obtained from the Technological Innovation Survey from the National Statistics Institute (NSI) of Spain. Three innovation sourcing strategies are anal...