“…Indeed, the impact of human resource management (HRM) reaches individual achievements regarding skills and motivation amongst other personal traits that are prerequisites for innovation (Diaz-Fernandez et al, 2017). That is to say, IP, understood as the capacity of a business to obtain new products and other outputs, is strongly related to HRM (Adnan et al, 2016;Métailler, 2016;Diaz-Fernandez et al, 2017). Through the activities undertaken by HRM, namely building a culture that values new ideas or enabling employees to keep growing professionally, it is noticeable how they influence on the employees and consequently impact on IP as well (Bal et al, 2014;Liao and Huang, 2016;Diaz-Fernandez et al, 2017;Gile et al, 2018;Jaskyte, 2018;Meyer and Leitner, 2018).…”