The purpose of this paper is to compare the behaviour of service companies and manufacturing companies in technological, organisational and commercial innovation. The analysis of a sample of 11,330 Spanish companies has shown that manufacturing companies have a greater tendency to perform...

Innovation is important for the competitive advantage of firms, especially for service firms. We argue that public funding, such as that from national and international agencies, is likely to have a positive influence on firms' innovations by complementing private funding, such as that from...