(Nowy Sacz School of Business – National-Louis University, 2012) González-López, Manuel
This paper studies the changes which have occurred in the Spanish cod fishing industry in the
last few years. We also aim to understand the dynamics of industrial change and its relation
to institutions, understood here as both formal and informal rules and conventions. Our results
suggest that sometimes industries, in order to maintain their competitive position, need
something more than incremental changes in their products or in the technologies that they use.
As we can see with the Spanish cod fishing industry, major changes are needed which affect the
institutional set-up of their production system. Nevertheless, even when major changes happen
in the production sphere, this does not mean that major alterations happen in the way companies
innovate, i.e. in their innovation system.