Purpose

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that impede innovation in Colombian manufacturing firms, as measured by the level of technological intensity.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors used data from 1,850 firms to determine the barriers associated with information and internal capabilities, risks and environment.

Findings

The main results of this study confirm that potentially innovative firms of low technological intensity are more likely to ascribe high importance to obstacles associated with information and internal capabilities, when compared with innovative firms. The abandonment of innovative projects, family-operated enterprises and investment in R&D are all related to an increased perception of obstacles to innovation, while investments in information and communication technologies have an opposite effect. Variables as partnerships and export behaviour, have different effects depending on the level of technological intensity.

Originality/value

This study investigates the obstacles to innovation of a firm as determined by its characteristics and as measured against its level of technological intensity. Previous studies have investigated barriers to innovation in technologically advanced sectors (Lachman and López, 2019) and technology-based SMEs (De Moraes Silva et al. 2020) or how the technological intensity of the firm determines access to university knowledge for overcoming barriers (Kanama and Nishikawa, 2017). The only study to analyse barriers to innovation by measuring a firm’s technological intensity was conducted into Mexican manufacturing and services sector companies by Santiago et al. (2017).

中文翻译：

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对哥伦比亚制造企业创新障碍的看法：按技术强度分析

目的

本研究的目的是调查阻碍哥伦比亚制造企业创新的因素，以技术强度水平衡量。

设计/方法/方法

作者使用来自 1,850 家公司的数据来确定与信息和内部能力、风险和环境相关的障碍。

发现

本研究的主要结果证实，与创新型企业相比，具有低技术强度的潜在创新型企业更有可能将与信息和内部能力相关的障碍高度重视。放弃创新项目、家族企业和研发投资都与人们对创新障碍的认识增加有关，而对信息和通信技术的投资则产生相反的效果。伙伴关系和出口行为等变量会根据技术强度的水平产生不同的影响。

原创性/价值

本研究调查了由公司特征决定并根据其技术强度水平衡量的公司创新障碍。先前的研究调查了技术先进部门（Lachman 和 López，2019 年）和基于技术的中小企业（De Moraes Silva等人， 2020 年）的创新障碍，或者公司的技术强度如何决定获取大学知识以克服障碍（Kanama和西川，2017）。通过衡量公司的技术强度来分析创新障碍的唯一研究是圣地亚哥等人对墨西哥制造业和服务业公司进行的。(2017)。