Abstract

MOTTA, Jorge José; ZAVALETA, Leticia; LLINAS, Irene  and  LUQUE, Lucía. Innovation processes and competences of human resources in the software industry of Argentina. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2013, vol.8, n.24, pp.145-173. ISSN 1850-0013.

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the analysis of the factors that have an influence in the process of innovation in the software sector in Argentina. The study was based on a survey applied to a sample of 257 firms of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Santa Fe. Through a multiple factor analysis and a cluster analysis, it can be showed that there is a direct association between an innovative product and a set of variables that measure the efforts of innovation invested by the firms, the links to other agents of the system, the level of cumulative technological competences, and some characteristics of the working process. Additionally, we tried to demonstrate that the capacity of introducing innovations by a firm is strongly related to the level of formal education of its labor force, though the test that was carried out did not fully support this hypothesis.

Keywords : Software; Innovation; Formal education.