Análisis de la innovación en las empresas manufactureras mediante un enfoque multicriterio//Analysis of innovation in manufacturing companies through a multicriteria approach

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  • Ángel Cobo-Ortega Universidad de Cantabria. ETS Ingenieros Industriales y de Telecomunicación. Santander

Abstract

Aunque la I+D desempeña un papel crucial en el proceso de innovación, y los gastos en I+D son la medida más utilizada de entrada para evaluar el nivel de innovación de las empresas, otras variables o factores pueden ser igualmente interesantes. En este trabajo se utilizó la metodología multicriterio AHP para realizar una organización jerárquica de dichos criterios y realizar una ponderación de los mismos para medir el nivel de innovación de las empresas. Gracias a esa metodología se ha podido obtener un índice a través del cual se han realizado análisis comparativos de empresas de diferentes sectores industriales, identificando aquellos más innovadores y comparando los resultados con medidas habituales de la salida de la innovación, como son el número de patentes, el número de procesos y las innovaciones en los productos producidos. El estudio se ha realizado sobre una muestra de 1869 empresas industriales españolas.

Palabras claves: I+D, Innovación, multicriterio, AHP.

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Abstract

Although R&D plays a crucial role in the innovation process, and R&D expenditures are the most widely used input measure to assess the level of innovation of companies, other variables or factors may be equally interesting. In this paper the multicriteria AHP methodology is used to carry out a hierarchical organization and weighting of these criteria in order to be able to measure the innovation level of the companies. Thanks to this methodology, it has been possible to obtain a unique index through which comparative analyzes of companies from different industrial sectors have been carried out, identifying the most innovative sectors and comparing the results with usual output measures of the innovation, such as number of patents, number of processes and innovations in the products. The study was carried out on a sample of 1869 Spanish industrial companies.

Key words: R&D, innovation, multicriteria, AHP

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2018-05-10

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Cobo-Ortega Ángel. Análisis de la innovación en las empresas manufactureras mediante un enfoque multicriterio//Analysis of innovation in manufacturing companies through a multicriteria approach. Ing. Mec. [Internet]. 2018 May 10 [cited 2025 Sep. 13];21(1):1-9. Available from: https://ingenieriamecanica.cujae.edu.cu/index.php/revistaim/article/view/574

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2018): enero-abril

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