This thesis aims to demonstrate that the Spanish firms in the secondary sector invested or increased their spending on innovation, measured by the ratio of intensity of innovation, emerged strengthened from the economic crisis, based on the results of a series of variables business performance: productivity, employment levels, export balance, turnover and percentage of turnover attributed to new goods and services for the company and / or for the market. All data refer to the period 2008-2013... [Leer más...]