Entrepreneurial, Organizational, and Sectoral Dynamics of Industrial Innovation: Case of Moroccan Firms

The emergence of new industrialized countries has been fueled by their efforts in the knowledge economy and the promotion of innovation, enabling them to compete with the major industrialized countries. Thus, innovation has become vital for economies to compete and survive. This article contributes to a preliminary understanding of innovation behaviour in Moroccan firms by analyzing entrepreneurial, organizational and sectoral dynamics. In consideration of this, an empirical study was conducted on a sample of 192 firms, involving analysis of variance (ANOVA) and comparison of means. The results expose that all variables have a significant effect on the innovative behaviour of regional firms, except for the entrepreneur's experience, which does not affect the firm's innovative capacity. The results have allowed us to draw up a regional sector profile highlighting the key innovative regional industries. Defining the factors that impact innovation at the regional level is considered an important step in supporting regional operators to propose programs for boosting regional industrial competitiveness.