The Interrelation structures – EDI of Regional Innovation System of local area. A Systemic Approach

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the interactivity of the Regional Innovation System - SRI case of Atlántico departament, with the intention of raising some guidelines within said SRI, which encourage interactivity in the activities of development cooperation endogenous technological. This proposal adopts the Structures of Interaction - EDI according Fernandez de Lucio et al [1], to mean interactions in the scientific environment of the Atlantic department in Colombia, aimed at boosting the analysis of university-business relationship under a systemic approach. To this end, questionnaires, log sheets on project data, observation and interview participants of cooperation and collaboration projects beginning itself to document the result of the targets were used. The first results have a greater weight on the lines of generation of knowledge to the company and academia, predominantly through the training of human resources. Second, the results are expressed in improving processes, which sometimes lead to technical improvements in production processes in companies, but in very low proportion in the improvement of products; and to a much lesser extent radical innovations or results are generated in response to the solution of social problems or in response to government policies.