This study's main objective was to answer what our clients think is a very important question: which are the factors that determine the innovation capacity of a company and how to develop it? Although many innovation studies have been conducted throughout the world, this key question was still unanswered.

Innovation X-Ray, the name we given the study, is a pioneering study not only in Spain, but also on an international level. Up until now innovation studies have focused on measuring results and not the factors that provoke an increased or decreased innovation capacity within a company. As far as PROCESOi is aware, up until now, nobody had made a study polling the complete workforce within an organization in order to arrive to key innovation capacity indicators.

On the other hand, all the studies that PROCESOi had access to, have been compiled by surveying CEOs, Innovation Managers or the companies' clients. None of these studies have served as a base for establishing innovation capacity indicators or to discover which factors determine a company's innovation capacity.
The extremely competitive and dynamic business world we find ourselves in today necessitates a focus on innovation as a practice and a concrete opportunity. This study defines an abstract concept such as innovation, by establishing specific factors with which to act and standard parameters to compare a company to its competitors.

• Evaluate the capacity to innovate in companies and establish standardized parameters for comparison between these.



• Analyze employees' thinking styles and how they relate to the organization's innovation capacity.



• Establish which factors determine innovative work behaviors.



• Detect opportunities for improvement in terms of: client management, human resources practices, leadership and innovation management.

Innovation depends on people. Innovation X-Ray showed that the innovation capacity of a company depends on its employees' brain preferences, on Human Resources policies (whether directed to, or not to, promote the innovation behavior within the company), and their own innovation practices inside the company.

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