ARS en Políticas para la Innovación Tecnológica: un enfoque teleológico.

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach of application for Social Nertwork Analysis (SNA) into the field of Innovation Studies from a Complex Systems view, with the aim to intervene in the design and implementation of learning for innovation policy, in less innovative countries. Two terms are introduced, learning system for innovation and micro-network of activities intra-dyad, in order to integrate the teleological notion into the SNA. It is illustrated with a micro-level exercise (institutional performance evaluation of a R&D Centre) for a public university strategic problem: the lack of links of their research organizations with the productive sector. A conceptual framework is presented for the design of an institutional evaluation tool to catch the linkage aptitude and vision in this type of organizations (strengths and weaknesses), with the aim to intervene for the change, in order to increase the linkage potentiality, and so, eventually increase the potentiality to articulate a Learning for Innovation Transition System. The congruence in the design of the evaluation tool (questionnaire) to tie in the who with the how and the what for (the strategic objectives of the organization), is illustrated with a sample of questions. Some implications of this proposal are argued, either from the point of view of strategic planning as from the SNA.

Keywords

• ARS teleological approach – complex systems - institutional evaluation tool - Learning for Innovation Transition System – micro-network of activities intradyad