Innovación y empresas: Un análisis de sus características a nivel regional

This research aims to describe the regional level, the relationship of the number of companies that introduce new innovations to market in different regions of Chile and the volume of business in those territories trained in innovation and those who own infrastructure they have for the development of R & D activities. To this end it was worked with the results of the Eighth Survey Innovation in Companies realize the 2011-2012 period by the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile. Quantitative information was processed using descriptive statistical analysis and multiple regression analysis. The results show that the level of regions there is a relationship between the number of companies conducting training in innovation and volume of companies that have the structure for research and development, and the number of companies introducing innovations to market companies, with a starting point for the analysis of the elements that are associated with innovation in the various regions of Chile.