Innovative capacity in the department of la Guajira-Colombia. Inputs for an innovation public policy

Abstract

The innovation processes that are carried out in the business network of any country contribute largely to their competitive insertion in the global economy; in the same way, regions move in this context, sometimes leveraged by innovation system models; whose structure, behavior and reticular relationships are developed in a regulatory context from aspects such as geopolitical, economic and socio-educational. Therefore, the objective of the study was to characterize the innovative capacity in the department of La Guajira, within the framework of the corresponding legal regulations, through the key environments and components of the Regional Innovation System, as inputs for an economic innovation policy. Qualitative analysis was used in a documentary investigation. The results determine that the Regional Innovation System as such is not consolidated in the department of La Guajira; however, an identity structure was identified with characteristics specific to the region, which constitutes a contribution to the possibility of consolidating and strengthening the system with actors from the scientific, technological, driving and productive environment. It concludes by highlighting the importance of designing public policies that value the innovative capacity of the department, for which the results of the study become inputs for a public innovation policy that allows local development through the construction of knowledge, business innovation and quality. of the processes; in addition to spaces and articulation mechanisms, which can lead to the effective configuration of the Regional Innovation System.