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Introduction: this article supports the bases of a knowledge management infrastructure that improves the capacity for innovation in a company in the Colombian energy sector. Materials and methods: four methodological phases were carried out: a bibliometric review was carried out, the model that contemplates as variables was defined: intellectual capital and organizational learning, human resources management, information, and communication technologies (ICT) and innovation, this was used for the diagnosis and, finally, for the practical proposal. Results: it was validated a direct, positive, and significant relationship between knowledge management and innovation and a direct, positive, and significant mediation of human resource management and ICT between knowledge management and innovation. Conclusions: we concluded that intellectual capital and organizational learning integrate knowledge management, and in turn, that there are mediating conditions for human resource management and ICT for knowledge management in innovation in an organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research article analyzed the Colombian palm oil sector business model to understand its competitive advantages in the markets where they operate. A Cronbach alpha and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) were applied in the independent variables organizational culture and innovation, innovation process, methodologies and tools, and partner ecosystems to determine if there were statistically significant differences between them. It was found that palm oil exporting companies do not have a formal innovation system. It is necessary to create procedures that potentiate the innovation system within it through the human capital that sustains it, given its training and experience capacities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to acknowledge the value of joint educational entrepreneurship programs: universities impact on economic growth by building collaborative networks in order to encourage innovation through interdisciplinary training schemes. The case of the master's degree in Entrepreneurial Innovation Management, set up jointly by the University of Salerno and the Universidad Católica de Pereira, is presented. Design/methodology/approach: In order to conduct a competitive market analysis, the latest data on master's degrees in economics and information technologies management have been collected by means of a scraping procedure in order to build a data set for analysis. The authors have considered the masters' degrees offered in Bogotá, where most universities of Colombia are located. Findings: The data point out that current master's degree courses do not recognize the importance of interdisciplinary training, which is in great demand in the world of work: economics and computer science never run together and rarely do universities collaborate within a network to set up joint programs. Practical implications: The entrepreneurial culture could yield economic and social benefits by training students for a dynamic, global and increasingly digital job market. The case study represents a first step in building a network, which could be extended to other countries in the future. Originality/value: The originality of the study lies in the proposal of a joint Italy–Colombia master's degree, which is set up within a higher education network and may prove useful in creating job opportunities in both countries involved. Moreover, the learning path balances two traditionally separated disciplinary fields: economics and computer engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research provides an evaluation of the innovation capacity in a health care provider (IPS, in Spanish) in Colombia as well as the strategies intended to strengthen and augment it. To do so, a descriptive case study is developed applying a valuation method based on an existing model. This way, a maturity level was determined for the studied capacity. This valuation is built with primary information taken from semi-structured interviews to the directors and administrative staff in the health care provider facilities. This information was compared to the policies, strategies, processes, resources and other secondary information provided by the health care provider itself. The results thus obtained show that the innovation capacity in this IPS is heterogeneous as the dimensions thereof are not uniform, and fluctuate between extreme ends. It is due to the fact that the innovation activities in the IPS are processes requiring some formalization and strengthening. Possibly what they need is an innovation management system that enables to prioritize the problems and focus the efforts in specific action lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to analyze the mediation efforts of the university in innovation processes in social networks. The article is based on the sociology of innovation by dissociation. It explains how the work of two groups of university research passes from one process of accompaniment to another of distance, in the constitution of a cooperative in a neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia. The guidelines of the analysis are the types of workshops applied in the transition from economic development approaches and local economic management to learning communities approach. For university mediation to be directed toward Socio Technological System, it is necessary to understand innovation not as a process of change, but as one of exchange based on vital vocations, this requires going beyond scientific inquiry as the only source of innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today innovation plays a distinctive role in organizational competitive strategy, so that these processes management becomes key factor for success and above all the sustainability of processes inherent to the activities of research, development and innovation (RDi).This quantitative and correlational scope project aims to determine the relationship of aspects which handles the technical standard NTC 5801 Colombian innovation management with those in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) textiles and clothing in the city of Manizales. The methodological instruments, validated by a panel of innovation experts in the region and external expert consultant in standard and treated statistically using SPSS program, were applied to the companies belonging to the databases available in the city. Is that 67 of the organizations are in a level of innovation in the phase of innovation projects, this being the first step to a culture of innovation, and that although innovation activities and processes apply the 100 companies unaware of the standard NTC 5801. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]