Towards the consolidation of the dimensions of innovativeness and its impact on innovation performance

The enabling conditions for innovation (innovativeness) have been, recurrently, taken as the subject of researches analyzing its impact on innovation performance, but still in dispersed form. This research employs a model that consolidates the impact of ten innovative dimensions in innovation performance of organizations and adds to it some characteristics of organizations (revenues, number of employees and economic sector), as well as analyzes the results from multivariate categorical approach, distinct from that employed in the model originally proposed. The results indicate that the respondent companies are no different, regarding the aspects of the model in relation to economic sectors. On the other hand, it is evidenced that, with regard to revenues and the number of employees, organizations have different perceptions of the dimensions of the innovative capacity. Finally, the results indicate that the original model has maturity, as alternative methods of analysis indicate similar findings