La red de emprendimiento como instrumento para innovación abierta durante tiempos inciertos: el marco legal en Ecuador
| Autor | Cristina Anabel Segarra |
| Cargo | USFQ |
| Páginas | 291-318 |
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Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia RFJ No.9 Junio 2021
Segarra, C “Startups” network
“Startups” network as an instrument for
open innovation during uncertainty: the legal
framework in Ecuador
La red de emprendimiento como instrumento para
innovación abierta durante tiempos inciertos: el marco
legal en Ecuador
Cristina Anabel Segarra
Universidad San Francisco de Quito - USFQ
City: Quito
Country: Ecuador
Original article (research)
RFJ, No. 9, 2021, pp. 291-318, ISSN: 2588-0837
ABSTRACT: The purpose of an entrepreneurship is to build
and scale a sustainable business model through an enterprise.
The lack of tangible and intangible resources is often at this
very early stage. According to previous studies, new ventures
could overcome the lack of resources -key to their success-
forming relationships with partners (networking) through
open innovation (OI) processes. However, the structure of
each network affects their own processes and outcomes; the
innovation processes and the network structure mutually
shape each other. Opening up the innovation process implies
the involvement of startups in relationships with different
typologies of actors: Incubators, Large corporations, Higher
education institutions, among others. Understanding the role,
relation, position and power of each actor in the ecosystem
allow us identify its network position which is critical for
resource access.
DOI 10.26807/rfj.vi9.358
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Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia RFJ No.9 Junio 2021
Segarra, C “Startups” network
In order to determine the level of ecosystem maturity and its
interactions is necessarily to analyze the entrepreneurship
context. According to the Ecuadorian Entrepreneurship Profile
(GEM, 2019) Ecuador has a strong position related to physical
infrastructure, cultural and social norms and entrepreneurial
education at post-school stage comparing with the media of
the World. However, indicators like entrepreneurial finances,
taxes and bureaucracy, government support, R&D transfer and
entrepreneurship programs are quite far from the global average.
Utilizing the newly publish Ecuadorian Organic Law for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Official Registry No. 151,
2020) which aims to provide a normative framework that
encourages the entrepreneurship, innovation and technological
development this article analyzes startup’s network centrality
elements focusing on:
i) Main actors and the nature of these relations;
ii) Institutions which hold the central position in the
network;
iii) Partnerships and networks to support innovation
processes and outcomes;
iv) Financial mechanisms to support entrepreneurship and
innovation; and,
v) Education to carry out partnerships.
As a consecuence, the main actor determined by law is CONEIN
as a ruling body and the Entrepreneurship Advisory Council.
The presence of individual entrepreneurs is scarce. Although,
CONEIN holds the central position in the network, in that
aspect is a vast opportunity for Entrepreneurship Advisory
Council to boost participation among private sector members
and be a higher influence in the public policy making. By law,
partnerships and networks to support innovation processes
and outcomes are not clear, but entrepreneurs acquire greater
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