The following table shows the Innovation Capacity of all the companies that participated in the study. The average is displayed in the bottom row.

For confidentiality reasons, the names of the participant companies are not shown. The companies belong to the following sectors: insurance, telecommunications, consumer goods, services and pharmaceutical, among others.

The innovation capacity score is allocated on a scale from 1 to 10; with 10 being the highest innovation capacity achievable.

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The objective of this study was to discover which factors determine the innovation capacity within a company and to establish benchmark indicators to be able to compare the innovation capacity of different corporations.

Innovation X-Ray has proved that the innovation capacity of a company depends on its employees' brain preferences, on Human Resources policies; focused (or otherwise) to promote innovative behavior of within the workforce. , This study has also demonstrated that innovation practices inside of the company such as: strategy, structure, client relation, system and steps of organizational learning, among others and critical factors that determine a company's innovation capacity.

In general terms, the companies surveyed have much to do to stimulate and encourage innovation. They obtained an average score of 5.7 points out of a possible maximum of 10. In effect this means that they are close to failing in relation to innovation capacity.

Priorities to boost innovation, in order of statistical correlational importance, are:

Obligation to innovate:

Innovation, as any other business strategy, should have clearly defined objectives and measurement systems. 62% of those who were polled did not know their innovation objectives or the company strategy on innovation. This results in 60% of participants not introducing innovative ideas and 74% that do not change their work strategies.