Abstract

DIAZ L., Guillermo. Regional innovation processes in the Region of the Lakes: an analysis through geographical proximity and organizational actor. Interações (Campo Grande) [online]. 2010, vol.11, n.2, pp. 149-159. ISSN 1518-7012.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1518-70122010000200004.

The innovation and the technological development arise today as key elements for the development of countries and territories. Under this context the geographical proximity and organizacional appear as factors that facilitate the interaction and the transfer of knowledge applied between private, public and technological actors in a territory. This frame of analysis moves to a region of Chile, where there have been explored the presence and behavior of these proximities, and the way how your actors perceive your usefulness for the development of innovations to regional level.

Keywords : Territory; Innovation; Proximity.