Influencia de la innovación y uso de las TIC en la formación de la empresa. El caso del sector industrial español.

Abstract

The evidence within the Spanish context shows that there are a substantial percentage of companies that do not bear the cost of on-the-job personnel training. This study descriptively characterizes those companies that invest in personnel training, comparing them against those who do not invest in improving its human capital. Furthermore, factors influencing the decision that a company invest in training are analyzed through a logistic regression. Among them we included the intensity of technological usage and the innovation capacity. This research is based on data from the Survey of Business Strategies (ESEE) in 2009, conducted annually. The sample is approximately 1,800 companies, being representative of the Spanish manufacturing sector.

The study shows that the companies with most likely investing in training to their workers are those with a larger number of workers, a higher level of qualification of employees, more stable labor relations, greater participation foreign capital, and also, have a higher level of technological uses, carries more technological partnerships with other organizations and has a more intense innovative activity.