This paper seeks to develop a theoretical model to explain the role of knowledge integration and knowledge options in the case of external knowledge acquisition via employee training. It considers types of knowledge acquired through specific or general training and heterogeneous or homogeneous...

Although traditionally the roads used for the transfer of the knowledge generated in the universities have been the publication of the investigation results in scientific magazines and the contracts with the companies, in the last times he/she is expanding the use of other two mechanisms: the...

This paper aims to analyse the Basque Country companies' view about the financial valuation of intangibles relevance and its influence on business performance. To achieve this objective, a field study has been done with 440 telephone calls to Basque Country companies' financial managers. Then,...

The present work analyzes the characteristics of the programs that are implanting in the Spanish universities to foment the spin-offs creation, by means of a comparison with the existent in the European universities. The obtained results indicate that the existence of support programs to the...

In the innovation age, the necessary technology equipment and other R&D investments are not enough to configure an innovation ecosystem. The real challenge probably consists in promoting and reaching a cultural change in order to encourage and internalize innovation capacities, values and...

The reasons for the strong rise in the securitization phenomenon up until the start of the “subprime crisis” need to be analysed. According to many authors, they mainly stem from its offering the possibility of generating fixed yield securities with the highest rating and a low risk premium,...

This paper seeks to analyze the influence investment in that investment in intangible resources, specifically training and advertising, has on the corporate market value. A sample of the main Spanish companies, those quoted on the IBEX-35, revealed that both investing in training and in...

The ongoing globalisation process has not put an end to international financial crises. On the contrary, it seems to have contributed to their appearance and to accentuating their degrees of unpredictability. In this context, the main objective of the present study is to establish whether the...