Jon Barrutia Güenaga

• University of the Basque Country

Purpose To propose a model and a method for the evaluation of university social linkage activities from the perspective of the agents who organize and carry them out, and to validate this proposal by applying it to a set of activities of this type carried out in a higher education institution in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach The valid...

Benchmarking has been deemed useful for the study of regional competitiveness and innovation and is quickly expanding. The aim of this work is the formulation and validation of a method to select the right regions to compare. The proposed method is of general application and can therefore be used by any region across the world wishing to benchmark...

Ekonomiaz N.º 102, 2º semestre, 2022 ¿Hay «KIBS ocultas» en la pequeña dimensión? Explorando la «función KIBS» de los campeones ocultos desde las capacidades tecnológicas Are there small-scale «hidden KIBS»? Exploring the «KIBS function» of hidden champions in terms of technological capabilities Este artículo exploratorio sugiere la existencia de K...

Este artículo exploratorio sugiere la existencia de KIBS ocultas que anidan en el tejido económico-empresarial de los territorios. Se plantea una conceptualización original y novedosa que va más allá de la literatura tradicional sobre servicios avanzados. Mediante un estudio cualitativo de casos, este trabajo pone el foco en las capacidades tecnoló...

En cumplimiento de la “tercera misión de las universidades”, los Proyectos Universitarios de Vinculación con la Sociedad (PUVS) experimentan, en la actualidad, un importante desarrollo en muchos países. Sin embargo, no existe un modelo completo para la evaluación del desarrollo e impacto de este tipo de proyectos. Para remediar esta carencia, el pr...

The main objective of this research is to identify the influence of the scientific production of universities on their international demand. Specifically, we study whether the level of international demand, and the origin of this demand, is conditioned by the volume and quality of the scientific publications produced by Universities. In order to id...

La innovación es, en las actuales economías, un «todo» que está íntimamente relacionado con la competitividad. Países, territorios y empresas la integran en sus diseños de actuación y en sus decisiones con la finalidad de adaptarse exitosamente a los cambios del entorno competitivo. Este libro está dirigido a quienes estudian los procesos de innova...

Previous research has addressed the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and work organisation practices and innovation outcomes. However, the findings suggest that the causal mechanisms of this link are not yet fully understood. Further work is therefore considered necessary in this regard. This study contributes to this field with...

In this theoretical paper, we focus on one of the recent findings that have been produced in the last decades in biology, namely epigenetics, weighing how it can help evolutionary economics to gain a better description of economic phenomena. The interest of our conceptual contribution lies in understanding how firms and territories adapt to their r...

Purpose. This work aims to present, from the company viewpoint, a structured account of management proposals and practices directed toward improving the intensity and effectiveness of continuous management training (CMT).Design/methodology/approach. The article takes as its main theoretical referents the Theory of Human Capital, the Resource-Based...

The machine tool industry, insofar as it has a classical industrial component and a more modern one incorporating transversal technologies of innovation is representative of the innovative tension as a source of competitiveness for advanced manufacturing. KIBS can play an important role in promoting innovation in manufacturers since they support cl...

The machine tool industry, insofar as it has a classical industrial component and a more modern one incorporating transversal technologies of innovation is representative of the innovative tension as a source of competitiveness for advanced manufacturing. KIBS can play an important role in promoting innovation in manufacturers since they support cl...

The current study examines the barriers faced by research organisations in nanoscience when transferring knowledge to the industrial sector. Two are the questions that guide this research: Does the context play a role in the effectiveness of knowledge transfer activities? Does the transfer of scientific output in nanoscience depend on the type of o...

Las universidades no sólo ejercen las misiones de docencia e investigación, sino que su papel en el desarrollo socioeconómico de su entorno, más conocido como la “tercera misión”, forma una parte cada vez más destacada de su actividad. En este trabajo, tras realizar una revisión de la evolución de la misión de la Universidad y de los modelos desarr...

Adaptation to the European Higher Education Area has prompted European universities to concentrate on becoming more attractive to students, lecturers and researchers from different world regions. This paper analyses the places of origin of international university students in different European countries. The countries are shown in groups by their...

Adaptation to the European Higher Education Area has prompted European universities to concentrate on becoming more attractive to students, lecturers and researchers from different world regions. This paper analyses the places of origin of international university students in different European countries. The countries are shown in groups by their...

In the current context of globalisation it seems inevitable that the international openness of universities would also lead to efforts to attract foreign students. In the case of Spain, this is more necessary, insofar as the drop in population, the existence of other quality educational offerings, and the greater number of public and private univer...

The aim of this book is to open new analytic frameworks as a result of the incorporation of epigenetics in evolutionary economic thinking. The book introduces the concept of Epigenetic Economic Dynamics, which is used to study business dynamics, particularly, in the context of high velocity environments. The book focuses on the Internet (and the dy...

The aim of this first chapter is to study how organizations adapt to extremely fast qualitatively significant changes in the environment. As opposed to the prevalent Darwinian approach in which the logic of the phenotype is seen as a slow and moderate adaptation of social organizations to changes, our view focuses on rapid adaptation to quickly cha...

We are witnessing a very rapid development of mobile telephone-related sectors, firms and technologies on the Internet. The changes being perceived at the present time are characterized by their high speed, giving rise to high velocity markets and high velocity environments. In such environments, a number of dynamics are not explained by evolutiona...

This chapter concludes the book by addressing the scope and limitations of the epigenetic analogy (i.e. EED) introduced in it. The chapter discusses in depth how economic analysis falls somewhat short of offering explanations and predictability of the digital ecosystem, concluding that an ecology-biology analogy may be appropriate as a body of know...

This book applies a new analytical framework to the study of the evolution of large Internet companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Samsung. It sheds light on the dynamics of business groups, which are approached as ‘business ecosystems,’ and introduces the concept of Epigenetic Economic Dynamics (EED), which is defined as...

Purpose. This work aims to present, from the company viewpoint, a structured account of management proposals and practices directed toward improving the intensity and effectiveness of continuous management training (CMT). Design/methodology/approach. The article takes as its main theoretical referents the Theory of Human Capital, the Resource-Based...

The purpose of this study is to examine the degree and type of information the company holds on training, and to what extent the lack-of-information firms suffer in two senses, information on managerial resources and information on training supply, tends to condition their behavior vis-à-vis management training. Data from more than 300 Spanish comp...

El paradigma de la Open Innovation o Innovación Abierta (IA) podría ser entendido como la antítesis del modelo tradicional de integración vertical de los procesos de innovación en la empresa, en el que las actividades de I+D se desarrollan internamente, promoviendo el desarrollo de productos que posteriormente son elaborados y comercializados por l...

Este trabajo presenta, desde la visión de la empresa, una relación estructurada de propuestas y prácticas diretivas orientadas a mejorar la intensidad y eficacia de la formación continua diretiva. Las propuestas están dirigidas a los principales agentes de la actividad formativa: oferentes de información, a las asociaciones y agentes públicos impli...

Considerando las nanociencias y las nanotecnologías un foco estratégico para la innovación competitiva en una región, el trabajo describe y analiza la dinámica existente entre la producción científica en este ámbito y las señales del contexto regional desde la perspectiva de la transferencia. En este sentido resultan claves los aspectos relacionado...

Carbon nanotubes and graphene are often regarded as materials with some of the best properties for the development of applications in a wide variety of sectors. Research on carbon nanotubes and graphene leads to an increase in the application of nanotechnologies and prompts higher expectations for the demand of products including these technologies...

A change has been taking place in the world of nanotechnologies since 2009, marking the beginning of a new era of end consumer goods related to these new technologies. In this article, our aim is to know the dominant tendencies observed in scientific output on carbon nanotubes at centres and poles from different countries and considered to be at th...

This work presents a new methodology based on three well-known qualitative techniques (Focus Group, Nominal Group Technique and Delphi method), with a view to harmonising their potentialities and reducing their limitations, through application in real contexts with experts who are professionals in their respective activities.The main contribution o...

This work presents the Delphi method, in its Policy Delphi variant, as an efficient mechanism for carrying out consultations regarding regulatory actions that affect professional bureaucracies, and also, in the last analysis, for forecasting and constructing their future. The Delphi application presented here incorporates some specific characterist...

In the present article, we use a dynamic approach to analyse the topography of regional/local nanotechnologies clusters through the agents that make them up. These agents include firms of different sizes and characteristics, universities, research centers and intermediary organizations supporting the creation of firms. Our study examines scientific...

From both the macroeconomic and microeconomic or business perspectives, innovation is a path that can lead to sustainable success on today's current scene. In other words, the way innovation policy is posed is of great relevance. The existence of a market failure is often used as a justification for innovation policies. The scope of application for...

What makes companies give their support to Continuous Management Training (CMT) and why, on occasion, do they block its progress? If a company thinks its managers might leave in the near future, would there be reasons for it to provide continuous training of these professionals? Do companies interpret all likely resignations in the same way? We att...

La identificación y evaluación de proyectos empresariales es una preocupación importante para muchas administraciones públicas en la medida en que forma parte de sus políticas de creación y generación de empleo y riqueza. En este sentido, existen procedimientos de identificación y evaluación consolidados, y como tal, altamente empleados. Ahora bien...

RESUMEN: El trabajo analiza la relación entre los mercados laborales internos y el comportamiento de las empresas respecto a la formación continua de sus directivos. Los MLI relacionados con la expectativas de apropiabilidad de los resultados formativos pueden ofrecer una señalización importante acerca del comportamiento referido. En este sentido e...

The present paper aims at analysing firms’ behaviour of managerial training from the viewpoint of information economics. Asymmetric information between organizations and their management may lead to moral hazard and adverse selection. The theoretical literature allows proposing an explicative model that considers the expectations of generating mana...

El presente trabajo analiza el comportamiento de las empresas respecto a la formación continua directiva desde la perspectiva de la asimetría de información entre éstas y sus directivos, que puede derivar en situaciones de riesgo moral y selección adversa. Sobre esta base teórica se propone un modelo explicativo que toma en consideración las expect...

The crisis in the Social Welfare State and Knowledge Societies is affecting the current university system, which lacks clear answers and faces a diffuse and confusing outlook of aims and purposes. In the face of these problems, organization and management turn out to be key strategic factors, and this is so because of their competitive potential, p...

The different clusters that constitute the regional innovation system overall are slowly evolving. Some of them are getting adapted to the new market demands, at the same time as new ones are appearing. In the analysis of such evolution we will use the international research in the relation between science and technology, which is used as the main...

The crisis in the Social Welfare State and Knowledge Societies is affecting the current university system, which lacks clear answers and faces a diffuse and confusing outlook of aims and purposes. In the face of these problems, organization and management turn out to be key strategic factors, and this is so because of their competitive potential, p...

La crisis del Estado de Bienestar y las Sociedades del Conocimiento generan una crisis en el actual sistema universitario. Este se queda sin respuestas claras y ante un panorama de fines y objetivos difuso y confuso. Frente a estas situaciones, la gestión y la organizaci.n devienen en factores estratégicos clave, y esto es así por el potencial comp...

In the contemporary period in Spain (until 2001), the University has been submitted to continuous changes in their system law. The impact of the Bolonia Declaration (1999) has been the main reason. This work takes the public agent�s point of view in the moment when the University Law has been under elaboration process. The absence of conflict withi...

Las universidades de Deusto y del País Vasco han realizado una investigación sobre las características de la oferta y demanda sobre la formación de directivos en la comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco. El presente artículo presenta las principales conclusiones que se extraen al respecto, haciendo hincapié en la posibilidad de generalización de las mi...