Creatividad e innovación entre las Asociaciones Público-Privadas Caso Ecuador.

Abstract

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) represen an attractive figure that in Ecuador has gained greater visibility among public institutions, local and foreign investors, multilateral organizations and investment funds. PPPs solve unmet public interest needs, guaranteeing efficiency in their execution and creating new investment opportunities that were not available before through technology and innovation (national innovation systems) as the materialization of the creative process of private institutions. From an innovation and technology transfer approach, PPPs foster effects of cooperation and dissemination of knowledge in a set of areas, such as technology or contract management, from which public institutions benefit over time. The present work, through the case study methodology, aims to clarify empirically how publicprivate collaboration promotes a culture of creativity, innovation and technological cooperation, as well as the dissemination of knowledge and technology in favor of Ecuadorian public institutions. The creativity and innovation efforts strengthen the capacities of public institutions, thus acquiring competitive and differentiating advantages, the effect of which is the improvement of intellectual capital that is inserted and internationalized to the public and private labor market. Aspects related to the profile, existence, sector, intensity, motivations, and behavior of PPPs in regards to the creative processes that constitute innovations are specifically described. The results show that public institutions that have opted for public-private collaboration improve their performance in their technological competences, are more likely to introduce innovations and are more likely to cooperate together to conduct research and development (R&D)