OMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION

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Published: Jul 1, 2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35426/IAv35n98.05
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Competitiveness, Innovation, Resources

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FLAVIO CAMACHO
National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
EDMUNDO RESENOS DÍAZ
National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico

Abstract

This paper aims in two objectives, first is to analyze the type of resources of an enterprise and how they are used in innovation, define it as the process of creation or improvement of products or processes with a lucrative end in such two phases are identified: creative one and executive one; and two ways of classifying innovation: first based on level of technological change and second based on product life cycle. Second objective is to analyze how the innovation has an effect over the increase of competitiveness; understood as the capacity of adding abilities, knowledge, effort, motivation and resources, all under the action of management reach a level of synergy that enterprise is placed in predetermined market position, defined in one of the four levels of competitiveness: surviving, growth, development or success.

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Vol. 35 No. 98 (2006): Journal 98
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Author Biographies

FLAVIO CAMACHO, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico

A control and automation engineer from the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the IPN, he is a master's student in administrative sciences at the School of Commerce and Administration, Santo Tomas Unit of the IPN, and Director of the company NGS Automation and Systems SA de CV.

EDMUNDO RESENOS DÍAZ, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico

Doctor in Administrative Sciences from ESCA, Santo Tomas Unit of the IPN, he has been a professor of Administration Theory, Organizational Behavior and Administration of Research and Development at the same institution.

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