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Productive social innovation in the provinces of Imbabura and Carchi

Abstract:

Social productive innovation in the country is a topic that has not been exploited and considered for research, this being an important indicator for measuring economic growth in a planning area. The enterprises that are classified by necessity, in the course of the years, if these continue with their activity, an evidence of innovation is noticed, if to this in the process, product or service that offers, to be able to measure this situation, a survey of information was made with the main actors of these socioeconomic sectors, through the application of the Mayoux value mapping methodology, working groups of different productive sectors and services members of the United Women's Savings and Cbkp_redit Cooperative were formed, through work dynamics the levels and types of innovation that have developed within their productive activities, such as: implementation of innocuous procedures for the elaboration of food products, improvement of spaces for the provision of services, implementation of machinery for the improvement of production, among others. All these activities cause the enterprises to be classified in another socioeconomic level, identifying them as microenterprises that are in the highest percentage of agents generated by the economy in Ecuador, but not with the same benefits that the enterprises have at the moment of acquiring cbkp_redits for improvement in their productive activities.