Diagnóstico de los procesos de innovación en las organizaciones. Caso de estudio: Escuela Politécnica Nacional

Abstract

Currently, innovation has become into an enhancement driver for competitiveness, economic growth and welfare society levels increase. Hence, the measurement of innovation processes has played a major role in the academy, since the main challenge universities are facing is the differentiation or diversity in their academic offer and research work, academic offer differentiation will be the goal but the process to achieve it is by the development of innovation. This research work, which is part of the participation of the MIT-REAP Program and Research Projects PIJ-16-10 and PIMI-16-02, shows a diagnosis of innovation processes in the Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN) through the construction of a theoretical model that considers Capacities, Results and Impacts (CRI) as the main dimensions that allow us to measure the level of innovation being developed at the institution. The information was collected by doing a survey and having interviews with members of the polytechnic school community in order to adapt the model to the polytechnic context. Likewise, the proposed CRI model went through a validation process with the application of the principal component analysis to know the interrelationships between the variables analyzed and at the same time to define which of them actually help to measure the innovation inside the university. The final part of this study describes the current state of the innovation processes at the EPN.