Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Partnerships

This training course addresses the challenges posed by 21st century structural and contextual transformations that confront countries, productive and public sectors, and academia. The impact of new technologies is crucial in designing strategies and managing businesses and public affairs, while also facilitating interconnection methods not only between the aforementioned sectors but also between users of products and services. In this scenario, innovation emerges as a key factor for development progress, becoming even more significant in countries where knowledge and technology connections can be energized. The experience of open innovation in companies and their linkage with academic sectors is one of the keys to achieving growth and development goals, energizing a system that facilitates interaction via knowledge flow and partnership. Specifically, open innovation (OI) stimulates innovative capacity, accelerates knowledge transfer, and intensifies companies' endogenous and exogenous collaboration capacity, thus strengthening competitive capacity reflected in performance, productivity, profitability, and market share. OI is a strategy that allows the incorporation of knowledge, experiences, or technologies within companies or institutions to improve products, processes, and organizational and commercial activities by integrating collective intelligence in the search for external knowledge.