Hi Miriam. You show that you are familiar with the Pavitt taxonomy. But I personally do not get the question you raise here. Do you intend to find a classification of firms by innovation intensity or you want to find how to differentiate the Pavitt sectors according to innovation intensity? For starters, take a look at some recent papers where issues like this are discussed: F. Castellacci (http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/respol/v37y2008i6-7p978-994.html) and D. Archibugi (http://www.danielearchibugi.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Archibugi_Pavitt_Taxonomy.pdf).

Other way of identification of sectors and their innovation intensity was introduced in Hatzichronoglou T.,Revision of the high technology sector and product classification, STIvWorking Papers 1997/2,OECD, Paris 1997.

I am researching about Absorptive Capacity development in basic productive organization, which are not in a High Tech intensity sectors....... I am trying to establish the role of Absorptive Capacity for firms into a medium and low technological intensity........ and I am trying to prove for the concept of absorptive capacity, that have differences between firms in high with medium and low intensity sectors but not have differences with firm into a medium with low technological intensity......

I've just finished collecting data from 16 Polish regions.It can be divided into many different dimensions. One of them is intensity/regions/sectors etc. What kind of data do you collect? Maybe we could prepare a paper where we could compare the same data from two different countries?

Thanks Dzikowski!!!

I am trying with a survey that was prepare for Cuban conditions by profesor Suarez Mella from Matanzas University "Camilo Cienfuegos", but I want to compare with others clasifications or Typology or Taxonomy.... We cold try with this survey too!!!!!

It is great to hear. My present work is directly associated with food industry as an example of low technology manufacturing. It identifies factors which have an influence on innovation activities. One of the possible directions of analysis is showing the dynamics of innovation treated as an affect of interactions among different system actors (industry, administration and universities). Here you find a short info of sample categorization: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/High-technology_versus_low-technology_manufacturing.

Hi Dzikowski!!!!

As I stated, my research is about the creation and development of absorptive capacity in productive organizations at medium low technology intensity sectors ...

I consider productive organizations, nationally and internationally, operate in a complex and dynamic environment, hence the need to develop innovative strategies and emphasizes innovation processes beyond the development of new products, management is required intentional and planned change. Perceive and understand the configuration of opportunities and threats, know how to exploit the potential and sustain development through strengthening, merge, and reconfiguration of tangible and intangible assets, such as dynamic organizational competence, in a continuous process of organizational learning, is today the greatest challenge companies (Teece, 2007; Vega-Jurado et al, 2008a, 2009, Helfat and Peteraf, 2009; Volberda and others, 2009, Di Stefano and others 2010; Bogers and Lhuillery, 2011; Flower Peris and other 2011).

Most innovations are more as a result of the retrieving, processing and application of knowledge than the invention, so that access to and use of external sources become critical for organizations and the impact on performance improvement depends largely on its absorptive capacity, defined as "the ability of the company to recognize the value of new external knowledge, to assimilate and to exploit it for commercial purposes" (Cohen and Lenvinthal, 1990, p.128), established by Sun and Anderson (2008) as a kind of organizational learning from external sources (Sun and Anderson, 2008, p.141).

Given the multidimensional, complex and transdisciplinarity of absorptive capacity (ACAP), despite the extensive literature and attempts to operationalize this concept with quantitative techniques at the international level not seen consensus about its meaning, dimensions and components , how to measure it, create it and develop it, what has provoked an interesting debate about the construct (Lane et al, 2006; Vega-Jurado et al, 2008b, 2009, Jensen et al 2007, Sun and Anderson, 2008; Volberda and others, 2009).

It has emphasized the absorptive capacity for the high-technology sector, heavily dependent on the R & D itself, and very litle in the sectors of medium-low technology intensity, in which networks with customers, suppliers and entities of inter phase play a crucial role as a source of knowledge, and where external interaction mechanisms are decisive in the process of identifying and acquiring these (Vega-Jurado et al, 2008a, 2009; Bogers and Lhuillery, 2011).

Hence the link of my research with a focus on competences / capabilities and why come into play dynamic capabilities .... I have developed a questionnarie and a ponderated index over the multiple factors which drives and results for Absorptive Capacity ACAP on productive organizations in a medium low technology intensity......