Creación y captura de valor en la innovación abierta aportes del trabajo colaborativo entre la universidad y la empresa en Medellín

Abstract

Open innovation has been a process that has occurred intrinsically in developed countries with knowledge-based economies. The collaboration of different actors in the innovation systems permits companies to respond faster to the demand of new challenges and to create and capture value to gain a competitive advantage. In Latin America, open innovation has been implemented recently to strengthen regional innovation systems. Medellin, Colombia, has gained particular interest as an innovation case study, and this city seeks to consolidate itself as the capital of innovation in Latin America. Medellin has several organizations that work together for innovation as a key for economic growth. However, the collaborative work between university and industry (U-I) is not wide enough as expected for different reasons (Ortega y Serna, 2020). In this regard, OECD has recommended that the city must enhance the partnership between universities and enterprises to create and preserve added value (OECD, 2015).

This Qualitative research of collective cases allows to know the collaborations, the involved actors and analyzing how to create and capture value on innovation, but also, the value can be captured by the physical and intangible resources such as knowledge. This promote developing of organizational capabilities, within organizational learning orchestrated by technology and knowledge transfer.

This research shows the interest of different actors that make up the innovation system of Medellin, other systems, and companies that have not participated in this kind of collaboration. Companies and universities that have done these interactions should communicate them, contributing to creating and capturing value as an innovation objective.