Title: Industry relations in regional innovation systems: a case study of oil and gas in Santander-Colombia

Authors: Cinthya Arias Manjarrez; Piedad Arenas Díaz; Jaime Alberto Camacho Pico

Addresses: Centre for Technology and Innovation Management Research (INNOTEC), Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Carrera 27 calle 9, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia; Universidad Manuela Beltrán (UMB), Calle 33 #27-12, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia ' Centre for Technology and Innovation Management Research (INNOTEC), School of Industrial and Business Studies, Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Carrera 27 calle 9, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia ' Centre for Technology and Innovation Management Research (INNOTEC), School of Industrial and Business Studies, Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Carrera 27 calle 9, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

Abstract: The cooperation of the industry with the agents located in its geographical proximity is a key to the development of innovative territories. In this context, the purpose of this article is to shed light on the objectives that promote this cooperation, in particular on those unidentified in literature. The research was conducted in two methodological stages: a systematic review of the literature and a case study. Among the results obtained are a theoretical analysis framework of the interactions between industry and other agents of the regional innovation systems - RIS - and a relational capacity description of the oil industry in a Colombian region.

Keywords: industry; innovation system; networks; university-industry linkage; open innovation; R&D collaboration; innovation strategies; network innovation; Santander; oil and gas industry; review.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2020.105922

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2020 Vol.21 No.3, pp.370 - 394

Received: 02 Nov 2017
Accepted: 06 Sep 2018
Published online: 18 Mar 2020 *

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