This essay aims to clarify the puzzle of new principles and techniques in the field of business management of innovation. These new principles and techniques were born in a widely-connected world with an increasing presence of startups and innovative companies in order to meet pervasive market...

This essay aims to clarify the puzzle of new principles and techniques in the field of business management of innovation. These new principles and techniques were born in a widely-connected world with an increasing presence of startups and innovative companies in order to meet pervasive market...

There is growing recognition that innovation plays a key role in enhancing competitiveness and enable emerging economies catch up with rich countries. In this sense, Mexico needs to strengthen its national innovation system (NIS) in order to create wealth and reduce poverty and inequality. This...

This book integrates three analytical approaches: (i) local and regional innovation systems, (ii) technological spillovers from transnational corporations, and (iii) the processes of technological learning and accumulation of technological capabilities, and creating of absorptive capacities. The...

In the adjudication of several stages of an infrastructure project to develop a public service, when there is only private participation, there are strong incentives to reduce costs over the life of the project, which may affect the quality of service. In this paper, after a model extension to...

The traditional methods for the valuation of investments are based on the possibility of calculating discount cash flows. The present paper analyses the problem associated to investments on innovative products, which require an important demand of R&D. The mentioned investments present...

In recent decades the highlighted characteristics of the economic and techno-productive context involves an increasing degree of internationalization: a large expansion of international trade flows, capital, technology and information, greater interconnection between socio-institutional and...

Impact investment is defined as the transaction of financing companies, organizations and funds that in addition to natural intention of generating outstanding financial results also produce a positive environmental and/or social impact. This paper highlights the opportunity for academic...

Esta investigación tiene como objetivo pronosticar la incidencia de pobreza a nivel comunitario en Bolivia para el año 2022 empleando algoritmos de machine learning y teledetección, y contrastar estos pronósticos con los datos de 2012. Se procesaron datos censales de 2012 para crear un...

El objetivo de este capítulo es crear las bases de unos indicadores y métodos de evaluación que logren la adecuada medición de cómo la investigación ha logrado transformar los procesos productivos, interviniendo en procesos de innovación. Para ello se describen distintos enfoques...