Francisca Ruiz Rodríguez

Análisis comarcal de las actividades empresariales de I+D en Andalucía

This work analyses the territorial and sectorial factors which drive R+D in the business sector in a peripheral region such as Andalucia. In these kinds of regions the size and characteristics of the spatial dispersion of these activities is related to territorial layout and to a minimum level of productive and technological diversification of the business fabric. Through the application of the shift-share technique one can appreciate how in the case of Andalucia throughout most of its territory neither the sectorial or territorial conditions are present to generate R+D in the private sector, and when they do exist they are intimately connected. The most dynamic administrative areas are the metropolitan areas of Sevilla and Malaga, the urban agglomerations of the Bay of Cadiz, Granada, Cordoba, Huelva and Almeria together with the area to the west of Almeria; environments with a productive structure of very diversified innovation in which medium- high and high technologies are present.