Technological innovation in the Castellon ceramic industry

Technological innovation occurs a a result of the integration of three terms that make up the second member of the following polynomial: innovation = (Technological resources + Human resources). The paper analyses the interactive process amongst these three components in relation to the development witnessed in recent years by the spanish ceramic tile as well as the frit and ceramic colour industry, 95% of those production is concentrated in a very limited area of Castellon province, forming what is known in economics as a cluster. The paper studies the role of entrepreneurial initiative and the avalability of the technology and qualified technical personnel required in implementing the industrial innovation that has yielded such extraordinary growth of these industrial subsectors in the last ten years. A development fostered by the presence of a socioeconomic-institutional network that has catalysed the interactive process amongst these factors.