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Lemon System Product's Innovation Networks

Joel Bonales Valencia, Carlos Francisco Ortiz Paniagua, Joel Bonales Revuelta

Innovation is associated with concepts such as change and value creation, because it is a transformative process that expands the possibilities of a country, productive sector or company; besides being the driving force behind growth, innovations allow farmers in a country to move up the value chain of international agricultural export markets. Innovation and its transfer are fundamental for the development and source of competitive advantage that goes beyond the endowment of natural resources, capital and labor engine; making innovation networks indispensable, which are a form of flexible collaboration between members, organizations or institutions working together in pursuit of a common goal. Mexico has a tremendous potential in the agricultural sector to venture into international markets for its excellent environmental conditions, in addition to a high and diverse agricultural production, especially in lemon’s production and exportation; unfortunately, despite the competitive advantages of the country, agricultural marketing has diminished by problems that have blocked the development of the lemon industry. The research was conducted in the Valley of Apatzingan, integrated with ten municipalities that concentrate most of the lemon production of Michoacan. The object of the study were 4200 producers, 50 packers, 10 industries, 13 suppliers and 15 nurseries. This region is at the top in agricultural production in Michoacan, and the problems the lemon production has faced, despite its benefits, it hasn’t been adequately promoted in international marketing; thereby preventing further integration of innovation networks. Based on the above, the purpose of this paper, is to describe which are the variables that drive the increase in export competitiveness. Lemon-System-Product’s of Michoacan state, based on innovation networks and actors. For the design of methodology, we propose an approach, the following hypothesis, There is a positive relationship between innovation network and the actors who compose, reflecting in the export competitiveness of Lemon-System-Product’s in Michoacan’s state. This methodology puts in evidence twofold, the dynamics of technological innovation and analyzing innovation networks, exchanging information between both approaches to enrich the analysis. The outcomes of the application, proposes the Lemon Product System’s Innovation Network based on what actors involved in it.

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2016 – Towards a New Architecture of Knowledge: Big Data, Culture and Creativity
PP: 273-284