Relative to the standards of the companies in what concerns its involvement in
innovation we have two considerations: first, the information and the indispensable
resource access to the functioning of the company, in the most innovative cluster (3),
78% of the companies establish agreements of cooperation (formal or informal) with
other external entities to the company, in cluster 1, 64% of them appeal to the
cooperation, while cluster 2, only 42% of the companies cooperate with other external
organisms to accede to the information and the resources (technological, financiers,
human, materials).
The second observation, says respect to the cooperation to innovate and in this case the
two clusters more innovative also present differences (cluster 1 = 47% of the companies
cooperate to innovate and cluster 3 = 58%, cluster 2 do not have cooperation) and the
cooperation to innovate between agents are important for the company. Therefore,
coexistence of individual logics of actuation and cooperation mechanisms is verified.
Relative to the most important actors5 that cooperate to innovate with the companies we
have the following situation: the cluster with more involvement in activities of
innovation (cluster 3) has greater cooperation with the suppliers and with
companies/commercial associations (60 % of the companies) and Institutions of Higher
Education (53%), while cooperation with the customers, consultants round 40% of
companies and Associations of Development, Central and Local Administration,
Institutions of R&D and other institutions round 20 % of the companies. Cluster 1
presents some differences: it appreciates first the cooperation with suppliers (38% of
companies) and after the cooperation with companies (23,8%) and with
companies/commercial associations (23,8%), while the cooperation with customers
(19% of companies), and in 3rd place with Institutions of Higher Education (14,3% of
companies), while the cooperation with institutions of R&D go up to around 20% of the
companies and the cooperation with Central and Local Administration round 10% of
companies. Also, the cluster more innovative valorises more the cooperation with all
actors.
5 Having in account the following groups: 1- Companies, 2- Institutions of Support and Assistance to the
Enterprise Activity: Technological centres, Enterprise Associations and of Development; 3- System of
Education, Formation and I&D: Polytechnic, universities and IEFP, 4- Public Institutions (Local
Administration, Regional/Central Administration, and Other public institutions (ICEP, IAPMEI and
Regional Association of Municipals).
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