Table3: Financial Support (% of companies)
|
Cluster 1 |
Cluster 2 |
Cluster 3 | |
|
Of Local Administration__________ |
2 |
0 |
4 |
|
Of Central Administration__________ |
20 |
15 |
11 |
|
Funds of the EU_________________ |
42 |
18 |
59 |
|
Initiatives of the EU_________________ |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Source: Own elaboration
Relative to the support of Initiatives of EU we verify some improvements in the two
clusters of more innovative companies. It increased the percentage of companies that
benefited of Communitarian financial support to innovate, 42%, and 59%, respectively
for cluster 1 and 3.
D- Obstacles to the innovation
Previously we evidenced that the lack of financial supports was not impeditive to cluster
1 to have an average involvement in activities of innovation, but exist other
impediments to the development of innovation activities. Thus it is important to analyze
in detail which are the difficulties that companies had found in the development of
activities of innovation and if these allow to distinguish the innovative profiles.
Relative to the obstacles to the innovation we can considered the external obstacles
(economic and financial) the following obstacles: the extreme risks, the raised costs, the
lack of sources of financing, the lack acceptability of the customers and the reduced
dimension of the market; and internal obstacles to the company: the lack of information
on markets, on technology, the organizational structure, the regulations, the lack of
qualified staff, the weak mobility of the workers, the weak requirement of the
consumers and lack of cooperation.
For the 3 standards previously defined, cluster 1 attributes greater importance to the
external obstacles: extreme risks, raised costs and lack of sources of financing while
cluster 3, attributes greater importance to the external obstacles and also the internal
obstacles to the company: lack of qualified staff, weak mobility of the workers and the
lack of cooperation. The cluster 2 attributes greater importance to the raised costs, the
lack of sources of financing, the lack acceptability of the customers and the reduced
dimension of the market (obstacles externs) and the rigid organizational structure and
the lack of qualified staff. Thus, cluster 3, the cluster more innovative, is more
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