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The study presented here seeks to measure the explicit emphasis given by manufacturing companies from the Basque Region (Spain) in the field of innovation, and the degree of adaptation of their management context to features of the middle\u2010up\u2010down model as put forward by Nonaka et al. to promote an effective knowledge generation process.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>An ad hoc questionnaire has been addressed to Chief Executive Officers, within the framework of broader research into organizational learning and business performance started in 2002. This questionnaire is focused more on the \u201chard\u201d elements of the management context than on the \u201csoft\u201d ones, which may limit its usefulness under certain circumstances.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Conceptually\u2010speaking, the methodology used has the value of linking extremely abstract concepts from the middle\u2010up\u2010down model (knowledge vision, articulation of this vision by means of concepts and images, \u201cBA\u201d, \u201cinformation redundancy,\u201d etc.) with specific elements from the management context.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>The results of the study reveal that manufacturing companies from the Basque Region have improved their innovatory capacity to a great extent, adapting quite a lot of their management context to new requirements. 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