How Public Funding and Firms’ Innovation Strategies Affect the Innovation of the Spanish Hotel Industry

This article examines the way in which the Spanish hotel industry has responded to government aid and to the use of new technological strategies in order to improve its ability to innovate. Using the Survey on Technological Innovation (Encuesta sobre innovación tecnológica, 2000), carried out by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics under the guidelines of Eurostat and the Oslo Manual, hotel companies that have carried out innovative activities are investigated. Using the statistical technique of binary regression, we find that public funding has little effect on the innovative performances of these companies, whereas the effect of technological strategies varies depending on whether it is product innovation or process innovation.