This article analyzes the determinants of the French companies’ innovation
activity while highlighting the importance and the complementarities of the organizational
and technological practices’impact. Our results suggest on one hand,
that the product or process innovation is determined by the internal and external
attributes of the company (size, demand pull and technological class). On the
other hand, the complementarities tests between the technological (R&D activity
and technological partnership) and organizational practices showed that these
strategies are interconnected and that they have complementary effects which call
for their simultaneous adoption. Accordingly, to be able to benefit completely
from the positive effect of the partnership and the R&D efforts on innovation,
they must be accompanied by certain organizational practices related to a good
skills management and the implementation of an organizational architecture facilitating
the knowledge creation and sharing