El apoyo de la alta gerencia como factor de aprendizaje para los procesos de innovación

Abstract

In today's world organizations, innovation occurs in a relational context through inter-organizational and intra-organizational interactions of the learning processes of the firm. However, these learning processes with subsequent innovation should be supported from the beginning and throughout the process by the top management. This management is what allows developing an absorptive capacity where the company achieves to assimilate new information from external knowledge sources to be applied to commercial purposes obtaining competitive advantages. For this end it has different strategies to improve organizational skills, strengthening technological distinctive competencies, ie, technology plays a key role in the learning processes and therefore innovation, mediated by collaboration agreements that allows organizations to obtain an optimum performance in the learning processes. Today´s world firms by being in a global environment must recognize the importance of knowledge as a resource that allows developing competitiveness, since through organizational learning performance is obtained with efficient and innovative results.