Sources of technological development in the spanish food and drink industry. A “supplier-dominated” industry?
✍ Scribed by Marian Garcia Martinez; Jim Burns
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0742-4477
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✦ Synopsis
This article analyses the sources of technological change in the Spanish food and drink industry (F&DI). The increasing importance of technical change has called for a better understanding of the innovation process and sources of technical advances in particular. The article examines the generally accepted view of the F&DI as a "supplier-dominated" industry. Empirical results show the important contribution of national and foreign suppliers of machinery and equipment to the Spanish F&DI's technological level. However, Spain F&DI's reliance on externally generated technology has brought about low levels of technological autonomy in general, and process technology in particular. Logistic regression analysis underlines the importance of in-house technological capabilities in innovation, and thereby the problems an industry faces if it largely relies on external sources of technical change as opposed to internal developments.