We analyse the effect of innovation on technical progress in Spanish manufacturing firms by identifying and explaining how the following innovation factors affect technical progress: research and development (R&D) activities and expenditures, patents, innovations in products and in processes, internal organisation of innovation, outsourcing R&D activities, public R&D funding, external relationships of innovation and different ways of external collaboration for innovation. We focus on how firm behaviour and structure drive these innovation factors. Our results are based on multiple regression analyses using firm-level data from 2010. We show that innovations in product, processes and R&D activities (especially external R&D activities) are more likely to improve the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. In addition, the activities related to the internal organisation or the external collaboration for innovation generates a higher productivity level. This positive effect is bigger when a firm collaborates with universities and/or technology centres and employs recent college graduates, especially those with degrees in science, engineering or technology.

En el presente artículo se lleva a cabo un modelo de análisis de la incidencia de las características inherentes al trabajo sobre la satisfacción laboral. El contraste empírico tiene su origen en la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida en el Trabajo del año 2010 (Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración de España), siendo la metodología aplicada una regresión stepwise. Las variables independientes que se han considerado en el modelo de la satisfacción laboral fueron, por orden de inclusión y explicación : motivación, actividad, organización del trabajo, salario, jornada, valoración de los superiores, estabilidad, desarrollo personal, vacaciones y permisos y posibilidad de promoción. Se han obtenido como resultado todos los coeficientes de regresión positivos y significativos, siendo la bondad del modelo aceptable en la medida en que las variables independientes se derivan únicamente de características de la organización.

This paper tries to contrast theories and location factors with the results of an open investigation on management of intellectual capital in aquaculture. We analyse the applicability of endogenous development models and enterprise networks, from an alternative point of view different from the hierarchy and the market, finally theories about the formation weight and the R&D&i efforts in real investments and real expenditures that the spanish aquaculture companies assume are contrasted, in competitiveness terms

The conservation of customs and gastronomic tradition facilitate the configuration of enogastronomics routes, observing a growing trend of these routes as driving forces in rural areas. In this way, gastronomy, as a heritage resource, enhances the economic development of rural areas, through tourist demand, adding value to the quality tourist offer. This study analyzes the impact of these routes on the tourism system of the Comarca do Ribeiro. The exceptional nature of the geographical space is complemented by unique and differentiated products, endorsed by Designations of Origin (DOs), Protected Geographical Indications (PGIs) and "Regulatory Councils", which are in charge of its normative defense, protection, differentiation and strengthening before the consumers, interest groups and society as a whole. Based on these complementary characterizations of food and wine routes, we will elaborate and identify their strategic profile, as well as a competitive analysis of the route, from the tourist point of view.