Influence of economic and financial performance on technological innovations of Brazilian construction stock exchange firms

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of economic and financial performance on the technologic innovation of stock exchange real estate Brazilian firms. Economic and financial performance and technological innovations themes are described on specific topics using many authors who analyzed the correlated themes to compose the theoretical basis. According to the objective, this study is descriptive, in relation to the procedures, it is considered as documentary and it uses a quantitative approach. To collect our data, we used innovation evidences from management reports and economic and financial results were gotten consulting Economatica® using the data published by the stock exchange real estate Brazilian firms. We used Multiple linear regression as a statistic method and we concluded that economic and financial performance variables such ase: general liquidity ratio, size of the firm, and sales growth presented a statistically significant relationship with technological innovation of real estate firms.