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This research aimed to understand the direct influence of a firm's alliance portfolio diversity on its product and process innovation performance and the indirect influence of the former on financial performance, mediated by innovation performance. To reach this goal, we proposed a model based on alliance portfolios and absorptive capacity theories and tested it in a sample of 806 Colombian manufacturing firms with structural equation modeling. The results supported the hypothesis that alliance portfolio diversity has a direct influence on product and process innovation and an indirect impact on financial performance. Product innovation, as expected, mediated this indirect relationship. On the other hand, process innovation did not. Another interesting finding was that, for high levels of absorptive capacity, the positive influence of diversity on innovation performance was more intense. This study contributes by extending the research of alliance portfolios in the innovation management field by understanding their phenomena under an emerging economy context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to propose a conceptual model for the formation of innovation strategies, while recognizing emerging strategies, in which an organization responds to spontaneous innovation opportunities. The conceptual model is analyzed empirically in 9 innovative companies in Colombia to identify the main components of the model in their innovation management processes. The results from the empirical analysis show that these companies have a significant level of development of the conceptual model's elements, highlighting the emerging actions they use as part of their strategic innovation processes. The conceptual analysis reveals that innovation strategy is researched in a deliberate way, which creates understanding gaps in the literature about emerging forms for this strategy type. It is conclude that it is necessary to further conduct in-depth research on emerging innovation strategies in order to establish a theoretical baseline that would allow improving the understanding of the formation of innovation strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Management innovation is related to new organizational structures and administrative systems that generate the possibility of creating value for the company. Using as theoretical framework the dynamic capabilities theory, this article examines the relationship between management innovation, technological innovation, and performance, testing the moderating effect of management innovation. Methodologically, the work uses data from the Survey of Development and Technological Innovation 2015–2016 of the Colombian manufacturing industrial sector. For the analysis, six ordinary least squares and robust regression models are estimated. The results suggest that in Colombia, companies do not achieve better results by introducing technological and management innovations simultaneously, since management innovation negatively moderates the relationship between technological innovation and performance. However, management and technological innovations positively influence firm's performance when they are introduced into companies separately. Theoretically, the work advances the literature on the dynamics capabilities perspective, using it to analyze management innovation, technological innovation, and performance in emerging economies. Empirically, useful information is provided for the design of strategies for practitioners seeking to improve the performance of companies with the introduction of management innovations, technological innovations, and new administrative practices. There is a need to develop a far greater understanding of how the invention and implementation of new administrative practices, organizational structures, or management techniques affect in tandem technological innovation capabilities and firm's performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical work addresses the maturity models related to innovation processes that can be applied in critical industries such as the aerospace-defense sector in Colombia. It responds to the need to articulate the local industry, technical and innovation capabilities, regulatory aspects, scalability and the observed market. It proposes a model to measure an innovation process's readiness level in these sectors, applicable to decision-making processes, development centers, and the country's leading sectors. It offers a theoretical basis and a tool to be applied in the decision-making process to help minimize the inherent risks to the innovation process in the sector. The method used was mixed; first, a review of the state-of-the-art and a scientometric analysis was carried out to determine factors subsequently validated by experts, which gave rise to variables with a high degree of relevance in generating innovative products or services. These were modeled through structural equations considering variables covering the innovation cycle, considering market, industry, and technology criteria, which minimize risk until integrating the absorption of the innovative product. Finally, the model was refined through exercises with experts related to the sector from academia, industry, research centers, innovation and the end user of the innovation products. The paper proposes a theoretical measuring model of technological maturity of innovation and a flow chart that could serve as a tool for measuring technological readiness. The model could be a tool for an organization's decision-making, as it visualizes technology, market and regulation as critical factors in the innovation cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

In a global context of change and uncertainty, the innovation capacity of organizations is key to their sustained development. The objective of this study is to empirically analyze the relationship between innovation and firm performance of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in emerging countries and to study the moderating role of investment and collaboration in these relationships. The least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) analyzed a sample of 104 SMEs in the wearing apparel sector in Peru and Colombia. Product Innovation together with Business Process Innovation, explained 47.1 % of organizational performance, 41.0 % of economic performance, 39.5 % of commercial performance and 36.9 % of productive performance. However, Product Innovation was not a significant predictor of productive or organizational performance. The moderating effect of Investment on the relationship between Product Innovation and Business Process Innovation and Firm performance was only significant for organizational and productive performance and with respect to the moderating effect of Collaboration on the relationship between Product innovation and Business Process Innovation and Firm performance, in the quantitative analysis no significant prediction was obtained, supported by the results of the surveys where 62.8 % of the MSMEs never received supported from others actors for the development of innovation activities. The application of the findings of this study can contribute to the validation, updating or implementation of public policies that promote collaboration between actors of the innovation ecosystem, as well as in proposal of investment strategies for the development of innovation in emerging countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombian software industry is considered a world-class sector that represents an opportunity for economic and industrial growth and boosting competitiveness. The economic relevance of this industry lays in the fact that it gives support to the operability and stability of other important industrial sectors of the domestic economy. On the other hand, empirical evidence reveals that there are growth limitations to overcome in order to achieve the proposed goals of the sector. This research work aims to identify the problem that is at the root of the low growth of the industry through a systemic analysis and the use of modeling methodologies. The results indicate deficiencies in the industrial development and market expansion in the sector, due to the misunderstanding of the system dynamic of this industry. [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]

El artículo presenta una reflexión del autor acerca de la innovación y la competitividad de la economía colombiana en el contexto de la globalización económica. Comenta sobre la relación entre desarrollo económico e innovación, las claves del gerenciamiento de la innovación y la situación de la ciencia y la tecnología colombiana.

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]

El artículo describe las historias de cuatro empresas exitosas de Colombia, incluyendo Pagos Online, Industrias El León, Servivienda, y Perfiglass, destacando sus estrategías de innovación. Se esbozan elementos comunes entre las empresas, incluyendo su prioritización del compromiso y sostenibilidad ambiental.

This article identifies in a sample of 21 agribusiness companies in the department of Antioquia - Colombia innovation key factors that establish a relationship with the basics of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), in order to help businesses structure to manage innovation. For the development of this study were taken variables defined by the innovative profile of the Methodology of Technology Management by Projects "MGT" which describes a profile of companies regarding the four dimensions of innovation: product, process, marketing and organization [1] defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [2]. Later he built a database with the results of the innovative profile of agribusiness companies gathered from the MGT, and finally implemented the statistical tool of multivariate analysis which allowed us to define the key factors of innovation more frequent and important business to which we applied the methodology "MGT" [3]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo integra estrategia y mejoramiento, al vincular innovación y calidad en las organizaciones colombianas. Se hace una revisión de los marcos teóricos que existen sobre los dos conceptos para luego explorar en 6670 empresas, la relación entre la inversión en tecnologías de gestión de calidad y obtención de resultados de innovación. Los resultados indican que en Colombia las certificaciones de calidad no son una ventaja competitiva que permita lograr resultados en innovación. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper identifies advances in science, technology and innovation (STI) in Colombia between 1990 and 2005, and then explores: (i) the successes and failures of policies designed to stimulate advances, and (ii) the challenges facing the country when converting knowledge and, especially, innovation into primary sources of development and competition. The paper reviews neoclassical and evolutional contributions in terms of their relationship with technological change, growth and development, and looks at the literature on recent experiences of successful industrialization and national innovation systems. It then moves on to the implications for STI policy, using official information, domestic and international publications and a number of the authors' investigations to evaluate some of the efforts and results indicators related to innovation, production capacity, and scientific divulgation and articulation between actors in the scientific, technological and productive fields. The results show notable advances in science, but precarious results for technology and the links between actors in these fields. The paper then examines the political challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo se enfoca en la industria de alimentos en Colombia y los retos que enfrenta para ser competitiva en el entorno global. Se discute de la importancia para implementar un modelo de investigación, desarrollo e innovación, lo cual fomenta la identificación de las oportunidades, las tendencias y las amenazas de las novedades tecnológicos y técnicos en la industria. Se enfatiza que el concepto de la innovación debe incluir un marco político que promueva la ciencia y la tecnología.