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Annex 1: ANOVA Applied to the 3 clusters of companies relative to the involvement in innovation

ANOVA

	__________Cluster__________		____________Error____________		F	Sig.
	Mean Square	df	Mean Square	df	F	Sig.
Research and Development (R&D) inside of the companies	1,430	2	,142	102	10,038	,000
Acquisition of services of extern - R&D	1,837	2	,140	102	13,113	,000
Acquisition of new technologies	1,070	2	,185	102	5,792	,004
Information Technologies	2,405	2	,188	102	12,805	,000
Acquisition of other external knowledge	2,056	2	,156	102	13,154	,000
Formation of Human Resources	1,618	2	,217	102	7,452	,001
Introduction of innovation on market	3,814	2	,154	102	24,772	,000
Management Strategy /techniques	7,236	2	,072	102	100,080	,000
Structure organizational	5,077	2	,138	102	36,748	,000
Marketing	2,951	2	,160	102	18,418	,000
The company introduced innovation	10,348	2	,019	102	546,134	,000
Innovation of product	7,492	2	,108	102	69,612	,000
Innovation of process	2,614	2	,155	102	16,913	,000
Organizational Innovation	_______2,188	_________2	_________,110	102	19,956	,000

The F tests should be used only for descriptive purposes because the clusters have been chosen to maximize the differences among
cases in different clusters. The observed significance levels are not corrected for this and thus cannot be interpreted as tests of the
hypothesis that the cluster means are equal.

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