Espacio relacional, proceso innovador y difusión territorial de la innovación en Andalucía

Abstract

This issue analyses the knowledge relationships which Andalusian firms establish with other agents from the local, regional, national and European environment and the rest of tlie world for the development of Researcli andDevelopment (R+D) activities. From the information provided by 156 questionnaires-interviews it is studied their spatial characteristics the factors or causes which define them; and the effects in the innovating process of the firms themselves as well as their role on the territorial diffusion of innovation within the Autonomous Community. As it may happen in peripheral regions, the network among the managerial subsystem and the scientific subsystem, the administrative one, etc., is of a reduced technological complexity. The diffusion process of innovation at regional and local levels emanates fron the advanced services firms and from medium techology manufactures, and from a territorial point of view, from the great urban areas in the region.