Nuria Calvo

• Professor
• Universidade da Coruña

Este informe analiza la evolución de la actividad emprendedora en Galicia, el perfil de la persona emprendedora, las características de las iniciativas emprendedoras y las condiciones del entorno para emprender en esta comunidad autónoma. Los datos, recogidos en el año 2023, muestran el incremento observado en el porcentaje de la población con inte...

This study explores the dynamics of the relationship between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and firm performance, including the mediating role of innovation management. While previous research has separately examined various links between ERM and firm performance and between innovation and firm performance, a research gap remains in studying the...

El proyecto GEM aporta información sobre la actividad emprendedora observada en 50 países participantes en la edición 2023-2024. El informe GEM España adopta el modelo teórico y la metodología desarrollada en el consorcio internacional GEM para analizar y comparar los principales indicadores sobre la actividad emprendedora de los equipos investigad...

This study's aim is to examine the impact of enterprise risk management (ERM) on firm performance when aligned with firm strategy, with a particular emphasis on the mediating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in this relationship. Previous studies established a connection between ERM and firm performance, as well as between CSR and firm...

The change in life and professional conditions in 2020 has impacted the growth expectations of new firms. Based on a sample of more than 20,000 people coming from the Spanish Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) for 2019 and 2020, we analyze the effect of entrepreneurs’ motivations and social role models on the growth expectations of new firms usi...

Every year the GEM Spain team prepares a report on entrepreneurial activity in the country. After 23 years, it would seem unnecessary to explain why this report has become a fundamental tool for understanding the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem in our country. Or to have to explain why it is a vital reference for researchers, policy makers...

Purpose This paper provides empirical evidence for how gender diversity in top management teams (TMTs) and collaboration with university and technological centres lead to innovation outcomes. The authors review past research on these concepts and illustrate their individual and joint effects on process innovation specifically in the unique context...

El proyecto GEM aporta información sobre la actividad emprendedora observada en 52 países participantes en la edición 2022-2023. El Informe GEM España 2022-2023 adopta el modelo teórico y la metodología desarrollada en el consorcio internacional GEM para analizar y comparar los principales indicadores sobre la actividad emprendedora de los equipos...

The education system offers specialised training in professional skills for running new companies that students often fail to use due to a lack of entrepreneurial motivation. As an alternative, the faculty of Strategic Management I at the University of A Coruña (UdC) proposes an activity to stimulate entrepreneurship through an indirect action. Ove...

Purpose: This qualitative study investigates how employees and managers perceive work engagement and the role of intangible factors (e.g. task variety, support, and clarity) involved in the motivational process of engagement. Design/methodology/approach: A sample of employees working in four organizations in the tourism industry were interviewed. I...

In a scenario of growing demand for energy, technology applications that monitor industrial companies' energy consumption will support the integration of the value chain of suppliers, companies, and clients in a process of eco-innovation. We relate the drivers of eco-innovation to the key factors of internationalization of business models based on...

In the current knowledge economy, firms hardly innovate alone; the collaboration with other partners has become crucial for successful innovation. Literature has recently focused on two modes of collaboration: the learning-by-doing, by-using and by-interacting (DUI) and science and technology-based innovation (STI). Nevertheless, collaboration seem...

La crisis sanitaria causada por el covid-19 ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia de la digitalización como herramienta para reducir el efecto negativo del confinamiento en la actividad emprendedora. El análisis de los datos recogidos por el Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) permite afirmar que la crisis sanitaria ha condicionado la adopción d...

El proyecto GEM aporta información sobre la actividad emprendedora observada en 57 países participantes en la edición 2021-2022. El Informe GEM España 2021-2022 adopta el modelo teórico y la metodología desarrollada en el consorcio internacional GEM para analizar y comparar los principales indicadores sobre la actividad emprendedora de los equipos...

Small-cale fisheries are important for livelihoods, food security, jobs and income worldwide. However, they face major challenges, including the increasing effects of climate change that pose serious risks to coastal ecosystems and fishing communities. Although scientific research on climate change impacts has increased in recent years, few studies...

In this cross-country study we drew on job demands-resources theory to investigate whether psycho-logical empowerment mediates the positive association between structural empowerment and work engagement and, consequently, task performance and intention to quit. A total of 1033 employees working in the service sector in Spain (N ¼ 515) and the Unite...

In this cross-country study we drew on job demands-resources theory to investigate whether psychological empowerment mediates the positive association between structural empowerment and work engagement and, consequently, task performance and intention to quit. A total of 1033 employees working in the service sector in Spain (N = 515) and the United...

Regional report of thel Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for Galicia 2020-2021.

Un año más el equipo GEM Galicia presenta el informe de seguimiento de la actividad emprendedora en Galicia: Pero esta edición no es como las demás. La actual situación de crisis sanitaria, económica y social derivada de la pandemia de la COVID-19 ha provocado un complejo contexto para la elaboración del trabajo. Esto nos ha llevado a estructura...

El proyecto GEM aporta información sobre la actividad emprendedora observada en 43 países participantes en la edición 2020. El Informe GEM España 2020 adopta el modelo teórico y la metodología desarrollada en el consorcio internacional GEM para analizar y comparar los principales indicadores sobre la actividad emprendedora de los equipos investigad...

In this cross-country study we drew on job demands-resources theory to investigate whether psychological empowerment mediates the positive association between structural empowerment and work engagement and, consequently, task performance and intention to quit. A total of 1033 employees working in the service sector in Spain (N = 515) and the United...

Informe anual sobre la actividad emprendedora en la comunidad autónoma de Galicia. Incluye un monográfico sobre el impacto de la Covid-19 en el emprendimiento tras los primeros meses de parón económico derivado de la pandemia.

La partición de la población española en iniciativas emprendedoras en fase inicial se mantiene un año más en torno a la cifra de seis personas por cada cien. Con estos resultados, España se posiciona por debajo de la media de las economías de la Unión Europea participantes en el proyecto GEM en lo que respecta al porcentaje de emprendedores potenci...

La situación del emprendimiento en Galicia ante la crisis del COVID-19. Análisis tras 50 días en estado de alarma. La encuesta del Observatorio del Emprendimiento de España sobre el impacto del COVID-19 en la actividad emprendedora fue realizada entre los días 20 y 30 de abril de 2020. Abarca todo el territorio nacional y los resultados son desagre...

We propose a conceptual framework for the cooperation of nonprofit organizations, businesses and public institutions to address the problem of work integration of vulnerable people. Following a systemic approach, we design a model to analyze the dynamic of the partners´ attraction to collective initiatives. According to the model, individual decisi...

El Informe GEM analiza el emprendimiento desde la fase más reciente del proceso emprendedor, o “emprendimiento potencial” a la fase de consolidación de la empresa, pasando por las fases de puesta en marcha y primeros años actividad, lo que se define como “actividad em-prendedora (TEA)”. El emprendimiento potencial recoge aque-lla parte de la poblac...

After a decade of meaningful advances in legal framework, education and political agendas, gender equality should be a reality in Spain. However, something is not working in the Spanish industry, compared to other European countries. In this chapter we analyse some organizational dynamics that allows understand why the situation of inequality of wo...

Abstract Small-scale fisheries (SSF) account for more than half the world’s catch and employ more than 90% of people engaged in fisheries. Galicia (NW Spain) has supported important shellfisheries (considered as SSF) throughout history. Currently, Galician shellfisheries involve more than 3 800 direct employments yielding in 2018 9.519 tonnes of bi...

This paper explores how the entrepreneurial outcomes (patents, university spin-offs, research projects and R&D contracts) of universities relate to the availability and use of information and telecommunications (IT) solutions for knowledge management (KM) over the period 2011-2014. We hypothesize that entrepreneurial universities may benefit from a...

La población española involucrada en negocios que se encuentran en fases iniciales del proceso emprendedor vuelve a aumentar ligeramente en el último año, manteniendo así los niveles de participación por encima del umbral de seis personas emprendedoras en fase inicial por cada cien personas de la población adulta. De acuerdo con el indicador de ac...

Technology applied to learning is blurring the traditional outlines of the relations between publishing and technology industries, moving the internationalization strategy away from a gradual perspective towards accelerated internationalization. This paper provides a conceptual model of polyhedral diagnosis of market entry strategy (PODMES model) f...

Research transfer depends mostly on the firm’s goodwill for cooperation. However, very few papers deal with the intentions and attitudes of firm’s representatives when they decide to cooperate with universities. Following an outside/in approach, this paper explores firms’ attitudes towards R&D cooperation by focusing on the determinants of both hav...

This paper studies the attitudes and decisions of research groups led by men or women towards the collaboration with firms in research and development joint projects. We worked with a sample of 420 research groups of eight regions of Spain, France and Portugal in a sequential process. First, we studied the interest of the research groups to collabo...

Research transfer depends mostly on the firm’s goodwill for cooperation. However, very few papers deal with the intentions and attitudes of firm’s representatives when they decide to cooperate with universities. Following an outside/in approach, this paper explores firms’ attitudes towards R&D cooperation by focusing on the determinants of both hav...

This paper advances the study of the researcher's motivators to collaborate with firms from a triple helix perspective. Based on a conceptual framework that relates the agency theory assumptions with those variables that literature considers as motivators of the researchers and firms to collaborate, we worked with a sample of 420 research groups of...

After a decade of meaningful advances in legal framework, education and political agendas, gender equality should be a reality in Spain. However, something is not working in the Spanish industry, compared to other European countries. In this chapter we analyse some organizational dynamics that allows understand why the situation of inequality of wo...

Information and communication technologies applied to education through e-learning innovative solutions emerge as a relevant driver of change in the publishing industry, involving not only the supply of new educational resources, but also a reduction of paper consumption used in the traditional book edition. The dual goal of this paper is, firstly,...

Employee engagement via Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) involves conflicts of interest between firms, employees, and political institutions. We examined the international transfer of employees of an airline company as a case study of a CSR strategy based on human resource management. From the dual approach of Multiple Agency Theory and a Reso...

Purpose Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) are one type of collective social enterprise that has gained importance as a vehicle for social innovation (SI). The purpose of this paper is to understand the sources of the competitive advantage of CSPs as a strategic option for SI. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose a conceptual framework...

This paper advances the study of the researcher's motivators to collaborate with firms from a triple helix perspective. Based on a conceptual framework that relates the agency theory assumptions with those variables that literature considers as motivators of the researchers and firms to collaborate, we worked with a sample of 420 research groups of...

This article deals with the ‘glass ceiling’ phenomenon based on the fact that a disproportionately low number of women access managerial positions by analyzing gender differences in the ‘educational profile’ and ‘professional profile perceived’. The sample is conducted among 165 undergraduate economics students (54 males and 111 females) in the fin...

This article explores the determinants of firms’ R&D cooperation with research groups understanding university–industry cooperation as a sequential process. In so doing, we study the determinants of both firms’ interest in and decision to engage in cooperation agreements. We applied both probit models and regression models for count data on a sampl...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the availability and use of IT solutions for strategic knowledge management (SKM) and the universities’ performance, measured in terms of scientific production. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) and the knowledge-based theory, the authors de...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the determinants of firms’ attitudes to R&D cooperation with universities with the goal to propose a model of knowledge transfer university-firm. Design/methodology/approach: By understanding university-industry cooperation as a process, the model in this study is based on two factors: the “promoter of universit...

This paper examines the role of public subsidies on farming efficiency for Spain by using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach followed by a nonparametric regression of efficiency to farm specific factors (economic size, environmentally friendly behavior and regional aspects). The empirical analysis suggest that although a higher degree of di...

The gender dimensions in EU fisheries are frequently not taken into account, especially in coastal areas where SSF are highly important, such as Galicia (Northwest of Spain). Intertidal shellfish harvesting in Galicia (mainly focus on clams and cockles) is carried out almost exclusively by women (3300), but women also have a key role through the e...

This paper advances the study of the researcher´s motivators to collaborate with firms from a Triple Helix perspective. Based on a conceptual framework that relates the Agency Theory assumptions with those variables that literature considers as motivators of the researchers and firms to collaborate, we worked with a sample of 420 research groups of...

El año 2016 se ha caracterizado por una caída del TEA, que ha pasado de 5,51 a 3,99 puntos porcentuales. La lectura detallada de esta cifra nos lleva a situarnos en una caída del TEA por necesidad, de modo mayoritario entre los hombres. Así, por primera vez en 10 años, con 4,09 la ratio TEA femenina supera a la masculina y contribuye a amortiguar l...

Con un TEA de 5,51 el más elevado desde 2008, la ratio TEA que mide el porcentaje de población adulta que tiene intención de emprender, presenta una positiva visión del año 2015, asentada además en iniciativas que tienen entre 3 y 42 meses de actividad, el más complicado de los períodos en el proceso emprendedor, iniciativas además que tienen inten...

This paper analyzes the effect of the individual perceptions of social capital and culture in entrepreneurial aspirations before and after the economic crisis in Western Europe. Following the approach of the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50, 179–211, 1991), we advance the analysis of the...

A fiscal system must reflect a fair and redistributive level of taxation that improves progressivity and a more equitable distribution of resources that, therefore, improves social welfare. For this reason, the analysis of the degree to which these objectives are achieved by citizens is crucial to promoting tax compliance and avoiding fraudulent be...

This paper studies the multiple agency problems of international transfer of employees, from the double perspective of social responsibility of the firm and Human Resources strategy. We based on the case study of the decision of an airline company of transfer one of their employees from Holland to Spain. Because of this movement, the employee´s cou...

This study explores the process of generation-production-consumption of functional foods, involving not only the knowledge transfer of the healthy properties of new ecotypes of functional products, but also the multiple role of the rural women as producer, educator/advisor and buyer of these products. We propose a multi-layered model for supportin...

This article provides a framework of support to the performance assessment of the scientific and technologic parks (STPs) in their role as accelerators of innovation and creation of spin-offs in universities, particularly in the knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industry. We based our study on the theoretical framework of the model of 't...

This article provides a framework of support to the performance assessment of the scientific and technologic parks (STPs) in their role as accelerators of innovation and creation of spin-offs in universities, particularly in the knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industry. We based our study on the theoretical framework of the model of 't...

This paper contributes to the organisational study of the creativity applied to business innovation through the analysis of three propositions: (1) there are substantial differences between Creative Entrepreneurial Initiatives (CEIs) and non-CEIs, with regard to human capital factors, structural capital factors, intellectual property, and creative...

The aim of this chapter is to highlight the properties presented by the international human capital that allows us to conceptualize it as a strategic resource of organizations, and therefore, a potential source of sustainable competitive advantage. We highlight the role of international assignments as a preferred way for companies to contribute to...

The recycling and later use of construction and demolition waste (C&D waste) as construction materials present a strategic inconvenience for many stakeholders involved in the sustainable construction. In some countries, the recycling percentage of C&D waste is around 80% of the C&D generated. However, in other countries this percentage is much lowe...

Deliverable of the FP-7 project: ITSSOIN (613177) Suggested citation Lallemand-Stempak, A.; Cognat, S.; André, K.; Pache, A-C.; Preuss, S.; Navrátil, J.; Špalková, D.; Rey-García, M.; Calvo Babio, N.; Felgueiras A. (2015).

El índice de actividad emprendedora (TEA) ha experimentado un ligero descenso frente al año 2013, pasando de un valor de 4,11 a 3,92 en 2014. Ello es consecuencia de la reducción experimentada de aproximadamente un 20% en las iniciativas nuevas (3 a 42 meses de actividad). Por el contrario, en las primeras fases del proceso emprendedor (iniciativas...

This study presents a case study research that sets out the process of designing the Dominican Republic's RDI strategy during the period 2001-2007 and the role played by international cooperation in that process. We discussed the Triple Helix model as framework, and the use of a new approach that can be transferred to other countries. The results h...

The frequent construction and demolition of buildings and civil works causes excessive waste of energy and natural resources. It is generally accepted that asphalt concrete (AC) mixtures made with recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) promotes sustainable construction. However, our analysis identifies an environmental downside: increased consumption of...

By 2020, the recent Spanish legislation (Law 22/2001) has fixed a goal about the amount of non-hazardous construction and demolition waste, which is difficult to achieve with the current stakeholders' behaviour. This paper examines a number of fiscal instruments to promote the prevention and control of pollution by encouraging the use of this type...

The inclusion of people with disabilities is a priority in advanced societies. To get it, education is one of the best tools. In this paper, we have studied the support for the inclusion of students with disabilities in the university environment. Our work is related to the theoretical model proposed by the Theory of Planned Behavior and was perfor...

La actividad emprendedora en Galicia, medida a través del índice TEA, modifica las pautas de crecimiento que se venían observando en años anteriores, debido principalmente a las iniciativas que están en sus primeras fases de puesta en marcha. Después de un fuerte período expansivo en 2011 y 2012, en el que comenzaban a ponerse en marcha iniciativas...

Thi s paper explores the determinants of a firm’s interest in collaborating with universities and whether they differ by the technological level of the company’s industry. Based on the conceptual framework of open innovation (OI) model, it is included some aspects related to the transaction costs and roles of innovation diffusion that justifies the...

El objetivo que planteamos en esta comunicación es el estudio del papel que el análisis estratégico de un grupo de investigación juega en el desarrollo por parte del alumnado de las competencias buscadas en el ámbito de la disciplina de Dirección Estratégica y Políticas de Empresa.

According to the recent Spanish legislation, the amount of non-hazardous construction and demolition waste (C&D waste) by weight must be reduced by at least 70% by 2020. However, the current behavior of the stakeholders involved in the waste management process make this goal difficult to achieve. In order to boost changes in their strategies, we fi...

This article reviews the consequences of introducing certain policies in consulting firms, from the point of maintaining intellectual capital, by devising a simulation tool to aid in decision-making at an executive level Consultancies base the competitive edge of their offering on the talent of their professionals, despite the difficulties inherent...

This article reviews the consequences of introducing certain policies in consulting firms, from the point of maintaining intellectual capital. Consultancies base the competitive edge of their offering on the knowledge of their professionals, despite the difficulties inherent in depending internally on a resource which may of its own volition choose...

Este libro constituye una recopilación de trabajos realizados por expertos sobre el estudio del emprendimiento en España. En este país somos creativos, innovadores, apasionados. Pero no emprendedores. ¿Nos falta vocación? ¿es el sistema educativo el que nos desincentiva? ¿quizás falla la cultura emprendedora? ¿o tal vez todo es culpa de las institu...

La decisión de qué rumbo tomar tras un periodo largo de formación es una decisión de carácter estratégico, que condiciona el patrón de comportamiento del futuro decisor. El análisis del entorno y de los propios recursos y capacidades repercute en gran medida en las expectativas, que a su vez determinan los objetivos y marcan el guión de acciones po...

La actividad emprendedora en Galicia, medida a través del índice TEA, modifica las pautas de crecimiento que se venían observando en años anteriores, debido principalmente a las iniciativas que están en sus primeras fases de puesta en marcha. Después de un fuerte período expansivo en 2011 y 2012, en el que comenzaban a ponerse en marcha iniciativas...

Entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity are considered key factors of the economic growth because they usually bring on behaviors aligned with the market development, productivity and social cohesion. This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the entrepreneurial role, and provide a better understanding of this behavior from a dynami...

This paper investigates differential factors of survival of USOs compared to those spin-offs not linked to education institutions. Issues related to the entrepreneur-specific human capital, and also related to environmental conditions are identified as the main factors. An academic model for USOs support is presented, considering the role of USOs'...

The authors wish to acknowledge Braulio Pérez Astray, manager of innovation department of the Foundation of University of A Coruña, Radhames Mejia, Executive Vice Chancellor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) of the Dominican Republic and Alfonso Bravo, professor at the University of Salamanca (Spain) for their interest...

En este trabajo se ha diseñado un marco conceptual del papel de los Parques Científico-Tecnológicos como aceleradores de la innovación y creación de tejido empresarial en las universidades. A partir del análisis del modelo español, se ha diseñado un mapa estratégico que relaciona las principales características de los Parques con su crecimiento, y...

Creating university spin-offs (USOs) should be one of the cornerstones of a country's business development. Yet a number of studies have identified two factors that limit their growth: access to funding difficulties and a lack of management skills among entrepreneurial teams. In order to identify potential solutions for the latter of those factors,...

Creating university spin-offs (USOs) should be one of the cornerstones of a country’s business development. Yet a number of studies have identified two factors that limit their growth: access to funding difficulties and a lack of management skills among entrepreneurial teams. In order to identify potential solutions for the latter of those factors,...

The survival of start-ups established in an environment as hostile as the one people are currently experiencing necessarily involves the clear and consistent definition of their strategic objectives, something which will enable them to steer the efforts of their employees towards a common goal, to plan and prioritise work and to be familiar with th...