Perspectivas de innovación y cambio técnico en Ciencias Sociales

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is examining the state of art about the topic of innovation and how institutions and organisations can help to its development and maintenance. Specifically, this paper exposes a theoretical reflection that constitutes the basis of an empirical investigation about innovation and local development in dense peripheral industrial areas in Latin America. It reflects about those organisational issues that facilitate positive process of technological innovation, and those institutional ones that have influence in the coherence between innovation systems and an integrative social development. The research strategy is focused in case analysis and the results show how different regions compete among them to make room for themselves in the international division of work, looking for their insertion in value chains by using endogenous factors.