## 3 Empirical Setting: Context of the Research and Methods
### Methodology: Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Once the variables have been calibrated, we constructed the truth table, which, as the analysis methodology dictates, serves to organize all possible configurations of conditions and their correspondence with the presence of the outcome. The truth table was made with software package fsQCA 3.0 [25]. This computer program provides the relevant solutions through logical \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} \hline \hline
**Outcome** & **Variables for Explaining the Outcome** & **Associated Condition to the Variables** \\ \hline \multirow{6}{*}{Technological Innovativeness} & Early adoption & Early adopter \\ \cline{2-3}  & Absorptive capacity & Strong absorptive capacity \\ \cline{2-3}  & Experience in research and development activities & Experienced company in research and development \\ \cline{2-3}  & Size & Large company \\ \cline{2-3}  & Intensity in R\&D activities & High intensity in R\&D activities \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Outcome scope, variables, and associated conditions. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} \hline \hline
**Type** & **Name and Code** & **Description** \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Outcome} & Strong Technological Innovator (INN\_TEC) & Being a strong technological innovator means to introduce, \\  & Envy adopter (ENALY) & intensely, product, and process innovations into the company. \\ \hline \multirow{6}{*}{Condition} & Early adopter (EARLY) & Being an early adopter means adopting the technology before its \\  & Strong absorptive capacity (ACAP) & To have a strong absorptive capacity means to have a high \\  & Experienced R\&D Firm \\  & (ARD) & Being an experienced R\&D firm means to have an experienced \\  & Big firm (SIZE) & Being a big firm means to have a big size in terms of employees, \\  & High intensity in R\&D activities (VID) & High intensity in R\&D activities is defined by having a high \\  & activities (PID) & number of employees in R\&D departments (\% over total \\ \cline{2-3}  & Employees of the company). \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Outcome and conditions: description and codifications. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & \multicolumn{4}{c}{**Descriptive Statistics**} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{**Calibration Anchors**} \\ \hline  & **Max** & **Min** & **Mean (S.D)** & **Fully-In** & **Crossover** & **Fully-Out** \\ \hline INN\_TEC & 5 & 0 & 3.52 (1.76) & 5 & 4 & 1 \\ EARLY & 17 & 0 & 8.05 (3.88) & 9 & 6 & 4 \\ ACAP & 2.0 & \(-\)3.4 & 0.00 (0.99) & 1.3 & \(-\)0.6 & \(-\)1.5 \\ ARD & 100 & 0 & 11.97 (12.34) & 20 & 13 & 5 \\ SIZE & 7.7 & \(-\)0.50 & 0.00 (0.99) & 0.3 & 0 & \(-\)0.4 \\ PID & 40 & 0 & 6.23 (7.88) & 10 & 5 & 0 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 3: Main calibration points and summary of the descriptive statistics. reduction. The analysis process concludes with the obtainment of the necessary and sufficient conditions. In this way, we can identify whether the presence of a specific condition, or a combination of them, produces the outcome or is/are always present in the diverse combinations that yield it. In parallel, the importance of each of the solutions obtained is also evaluated. For this purpose, we use the characteristic measures of the QCA methodology, namely consistency and coverage, provided by the software package.