Capacidad de innovación localuna tipología para las comarcas vascas
- Zubiaurre Goena, Arantza
- Zabala Berriozabal, Kristina
- Larrea Aranguren, Miren
ISSN: 0213-3865
Year of publication: 2009
Issue Title: Sistemas regionales de innovación
Issue: 70
Pages: 282-303
Type: Article
More publications in: Ekonomiaz: Revista vasca de economía
Abstract
The article reflects on the right territorial unit to analyse innovation processes, proposing a multilevel approach and taking a step towards developing it in the Basque Country. From an empirical point of view, it contributes to the relatively scarce literature on the study of the interrelations between innovation systems, agglomerations and entrepreneurship. Connected to these three concepts, 21 indicators have been used to carry out a cluster analysis following an initial principal components analysis with the results of a typology that group the 20 Basque counties into 5 different classes: 1) capital-urban zones with a diverse industry mix; 2) advanced industrial agglomerations; 3) industrial agglomerations with average technological performance 4) small industrial counties and 5) small rural counties.