Vertical innovation is an innovation on the quality of the goods; it consists to improve the quality of items by innovation permitting to those items to access to the highest quality available on the economy. In the literature of growth it is opposed to "horizontal innovation" which in turn refers to product innovation mean the introduction of new items in the economy. 'vertical integration' and 'open innovation'.[1] The term vertical integration describes a style of business management control, and is typified by one firm engaged in different multiple parts of a production process.