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AbstractLarge companies increasingly look externally for opportunities to enhance innovation, which has resulted in closer study of innovation systems. We examined the role of service intermediaries (universities, technology centers, and consultants) within these systems using a sample of predominately small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises located in Valencia, Spain. As with studies of large companies, absorptive capacity (e.g., research and development expenditures) was positively related to the likelihood that a firm would engage in service collaborations. However, the rate of collaboration was higher relative to studies dominated by larger companies. Also, there were differences in the pattern of firm characteristics associated with the use of specific services. For example, the level of SME export activity related positively to the use of technology centers, but negatively to university collaborations. Copyright © 2011 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Purpose
Given the unresolved question about which causal conditions contribute to accelerated internationalization among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from weak institutional environment, this paper aims to combine theoretically relevant antecedents of domestic networks relationships (weak or strong domestic ties) and decision-making logic (effectuation or causation) to explore the configurations that are the most promising for explaining accelerated internationalization.


Design/methodology/approach
This study uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine the accelerated internationalization of 33 contrarian cases of SMEs located in weak institutional environment. The data set has been collected through in-depth interviews with managers in Colombia (21 cases) and Peru (12 cases). Building on the findings, an integrative model for accelerated internationalization is presented.


Findings
The authors found that the combination of weak domestic ties and effectuation logic accelerated the internationalization of SMEs with fewer resource constraints. In contrast, strong domestic ties and causation behavior lead to accelerated internationalization of SMEs with greater resource constraints. They propose a model to help enrich the existing literature about the causal configurations for achieving accelerated internationalization in SMEs from weak institutional environment.


Originality/value
The contribution of this study is to provide empirical evidence to address three shortcomings in the literature. First, the mixed results regarding the impact of strong and weak domestic ties and decision-making logic in the accelerated internationalization of SMEs; second, the limited research on domestic networks; and third, the scarce investigation in weak institutional environment, where the emphasis on constrained resources is higher.

AbstractInnovation at farms is crucial to face technological, environmental and social challenges of the agricultural sector. Our hypothesis is that access from farmers to research & development services (RDS) is enhanced by certain entrepreneurial attributes (market orientation and learning orientation) as well as by their innovative attitude and human capital, as innovation capabilities. We explore the role of these factors in a sample of farmers in a region of Spain (Valencian Community), which is a context dominated by small and medium‐sized farms. Through a logistic equation modelling approach, we tested the conditions that increase the likelihood to be users of RDS. Our findings suggest that both strategic and innovation capabilities, as well as a high level of formal education, are positively correlated with farmer's willingness to make use of RDS, while the largest group of farms shows a lower probability of adoption of RDS. Policies promoting knowledge intensive support services can pay attention to the fact that more innovative and educated farmers are also those who interact more with RDS, even in a context where small and medium‐sized farms prevail.

[EN] A key element of regional growth is its ability to transform knowledge into innovation. This research combines a group of indicators which define innovative regions with a rurality versus urbanization typology, in order to formulate guidelines to facilitate the emergence of higher levels of organizational innovation. Three main findings stem from this work. First, rurality does not appear prohibitive to the achievement of organizational innovation. Second, in regions with low levels of tertiary education, a combination of high levels of collaboration among small- and medium-sized enterprises, and public investment in research and development facilitates significant rates of organizational innovation. Third, in general, collaboration among firms promotes organizational innovation. The results of this research are in line with those from other studies in the sense that regions with internal and external networks show enhanced growth and innovation capacities. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved. ; The authors thank Norat Roig-Tierno, ESIC Business and Marketing School and Valencian International University (VIU) for his careful reading and suggestions, especially in the methodology section. We wish to thank the Project AGL2015-65897-C3-3-R funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, for its support for this research. ; Mas Verdú, F.; Ortiz Miranda, D.; García Alvarez-Coque, JM. (2016). Examining organizational innovations in different regional settings. Journal of Business Research. 69(11):5324-5329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.04.132 ; S ; 5324 ; 5329 ; 69 ; 11

This is an author's accepted manuscript of an article published in: "Applied Economics Letters"; Volume 21, Issue 6, 2014; copyright Taylor & Francis; available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2013.864032 ; [EN] This article identifies the web technologies adoption pattern of agri-food industries considering a set of characteristics which include location, economic performance and previous history of adopting innovations. Our main results highlight that, together with certain firm characteristics, rural locations act as an accelerator for the adoption of web technology, compared to the slower adoption rate in urban areas. ; The authors are grateful for the support received from the Universitat Politècnica de València, (PAID-06-12) ; Doménech I De Soria, J.; Martinez Gómez, VD.; Mas Verdú, F. (2014). Location and Adoption of ICT Innovations in the agri-food industry. Applied Economics Letters. 21(6):421-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2013.864032 ; S ; 421 ; 424 ; 21 ; 6

421 424 21 6 ; S ; This is an author's accepted manuscript of an article published in: "Applied Economics Letters"; Volume 21, Issue 6, 2014; copyright Taylor & Francis; available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2013.864032 [EN] This article identifies the web technologies adoption pattern of agri-food industries considering a set of characteristics which include location, economic performance and previous history of adopting innovations. Our main results highlight that, together with certain firm characteristics, rural locations act as an accelerator for the adoption of web technology, compared to the slower adoption rate in urban areas. The authors are grateful for the support received from the Universitat Politècnica de València, (PAID-06-12) Doménech I De Soria, J.; Martinez Gomez, VD.; Mas Verdú, F. (2014). Location and Adoption of ICT Innovations in the agri-food industry. Applied Economics Letters. 21(6):421-424. doi:10.1080/13504851.2013.864032

[EN] European Political Science (EPS) has been a leading political science journal since its launch in 2001. This article examines the contribution of European Political Science over its 20-year history. The bibliometric analysis draws on Web of Science data and VOSviewer software. These tools help detect collaboration networks, bibliographic coupling and co-citations to identify the most relevant topics and knowledge appearing in European Political Science. The evaluation of EPS reveals four areas of interest: migration, education, comparative politics and democracy. Recent interests include the current debate on populisms, social media and political parties, with antecedents and implications that transcend national boundaries. ; This research benefitted from: (i) grants RTI2018-093791-B-C21 and RTI2018-093791-B-C22 funded by Ministry of Science and Innovation and ERDF. (ii) GV063/19 by Generalitat Valenciana. ; Mas Verdú, F.; García Alvarez-Coque, JM.; Nieto-Alemán, PA.; Roig-Tierno, N. (2021). A systematic mapping review of European Political Science. European Political Science. 20(1):85-104. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-021-00320-2 ; S ; 85 ; 104 ; 20 ; 1

[EN] Based on fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), this paper examines the interactions between the presence or absence of regional and national top-ranked research universities and other innovation-related conditions that foster regional competitiveness in the European Union context. We evaluated the effect of a region's membership in different regional clusters as characterized by the following conditions: inter-firm collaboration in innovation activities, public R&D expenditure, private R&D expenditure as well as ranking in the list of the world's top 300 (or top 100) universities. As one region might benefit from the presence of a local top-ranked university and/or from spillover effects from other national universities, we distinguish between the presence of universities within the region or elsewhere in the same country. Our results suggest that some conditions are necessary to achieve the outcome of being a "competitive region," including having at least one top-300-ranked university in the same country (EU member state). Nevertheless, this attribute is not individually sufficient to incur the outcome of regional competitiveness. Our findings support the idea that the closeness of top-ranked universities does not itself guarantee regional competitiveness; instead, having an excellent research university within the same member state is only one of numerous configurations which may lead to a region's success. These results support evidence in recent literature that leading research universities may be geographically connected to a wide network of actors with external knowledge interactions. ; This research was supported by: (i) grants RTI2018-093791-B-C21 and RTI2018-093791-B-C22 funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades and FEDER. (ii) GV063/19 by Generalitat Valenciana. ; Mas Verdú, F.; Roig-Tierno, N.; Nieto-Alemán, PA.; García Alvarez-Coque, JM. (2020). Competitiveness in European Regions and Top-Ranked Universities: Do Local Universities Matter?. Journal of ...

AbstractColombia has a unique history, which has been heavily conditioned by armed conflict lasting more than 50 years. This study examines the institutional conditions for success and failure in reducing poverty in Colombian departments by considering changes that took place between 2003 and 2014. Fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis identifies the changes in regional conditions that reduce poverty over time. The pathways for poverty reduction are multidimensional, and many involve changes in institutional attributes such as government transparency, absence of violence, and electoral turnout. The framework developed in this paper can be used to monitor necessary and sufficient pathways in regional clusters.

[EN] Colombia has a unique history, which has been heavily conditioned by armed conflict lasting more than 50 years. This study examines the institutional conditions for success and failure in reducing poverty in Colombian departments by considering changes that took place between 2003 and 2014. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis identifies the changes in regional conditions that reduce poverty over time. The pathways for poverty reduction are multidimensional, and many involve changes in institutional attributes such as government transparency, absence of violence, and electoral turnout. The framework developed in this paper can be used to monitor necessary and sufficient pathways in regional clusters. ; This work was funded by Grant AGL2015-65897-C3-3-R, ¿Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities¿. ; Nieto-Alemán, PA.; García Alvarez-Coque, JM.; Roig Tierno, N.; Mas Verdú, F. (2019). Factors of regional poverty reduction in Colombia: Do institutional conditions matter?. Social Policy and Administration. 53(7):1045-1063. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12474 ; S ; 1045 ; 1063 ; 53 ; 7 ; Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J. A. (2012). Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. ASEAN ECONOMIC BULLETIN, 29(2), 168. doi:10.1355/ae29-2j ; Alkire, S., & Santos, M. E. (2013). A Multidimensional Approach: Poverty Measurement & Beyond. Social Indicators Research, 112(2), 239-257. doi:10.1007/s11205-013-0257-3 ; Amin, A. (1999). An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23(2), 365-378. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00201 ; Angulo, R., Díaz, Y., & Pardo, R. (2015). The Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index: Measuring Poverty in a Public Policy Context. Social Indicators Research, 127(1), 1-38. doi:10.1007/s11205-015-0964-z ; Atkinson, A. B., & Bourguignon, F. (1982). The Comparison of Multi-Dimensioned Distributions of Economic Status. The Review of Economic Studies, 49(2), 183. ...

1045 1063 53 7 ; S Medzihorsky J. Oana I. E. Quaranta M. Schneider C. Q. &Oana M. I. E.(2017).Package 'SetMethods'. ; [EN] Colombia has a unique history, which has been heavily conditioned by armed conflict lasting more than 50 years. This study examines the institutional conditions for success and failure in reducing poverty in Colombian departments by considering changes that took place between 2003 and 2014. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis identifies the changes in regional conditions that reduce poverty over time. The pathways for poverty reduction are multidimensional, and many involve changes in institutional attributes such as government transparency, absence of violence, and electoral turnout. The framework developed in this paper can be used to monitor necessary and sufficient pathways in regional clusters. This work was funded by Grant AGL2015-65897-C3-3-R, ¿Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities¿. Nieto-Alemán, PA.; García Alvarez-Coque, JM.; Roig Tierno, N.; Mas Verdú, F. (2019). Factors of regional poverty reduction in Colombia: Do institutional conditions matter?. Social Policy and Administration. 53(7):1045-1063. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12474 Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J. A. (2012). Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. ASEAN ECONOMIC BULLETIN, 29(2), 168. doi:10.1355/ae29-2j Alkire, S., & Santos, M. E. (2013). A Multidimensional Approach: Poverty Measurement & Beyond. Social Indicators Research, 112(2), 239-257. doi:10.1007/s11205-013-0257-3 Amin, A. (1999). An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23(2), 365-378. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00201 Angulo, R., Díaz, Y., & Pardo, R. (2015). The Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index: Measuring Poverty in a Public Policy Context. Social Indicators Research, 127(1), 1-38. doi:10.1007/s11205-015-0964-z Atkinson, A. B., & Bourguignon, F. (1982). The Comparison of Multi-Dimensioned Distributions ...

[ES] El sistema universitario en España en su proceso de adaptación al marco de homologación Europeo requiere del esfuerzo de los docentes universitarios quienes en el desarrollo de su labor, se sirven de nuevos instrumentos para la evaluar las competencias de los alumnos universitarios. En este trabajo se presenta una aplicación de la co-evaluación como sistema de evaluación del trabajo colaborativo a una asignatura de Grado de primer curso impartida en la Universitat Politècnica de València ; De La Poza, E.; Domenech, J.; Guadalajara Olmeda, MN.; Mas Verdú, F.; Martinez Gomez, VD.; Barrachina Martínez, I.; Martí Selva, ML. (2014). La co-evaluación como sistema de evaluación del trabajo colaborativo. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 856-865. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/144721 ; S ; 856 ; 865