This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to innovation policy and governance systems, highlighting its goal, challenges, and opportunities. Divided into two sections, it addresses the role of governments in promoting innovation in Latin-American contexts as well as barriers and opportunities for STI governance in the region. The chapters tackle the role of institutions, innovation funding, technological trajectories, regional innovation policies, innovation ecosystems, universities, knowledge appropriation, and markets. Researchers and scholars will find an opportunity to grasp a better understanding of innovation policies in emerging economies. This interdisciplinary work presents original research on science, technology and innovation policy and governance studies in an understudied region.

Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros is the Dean of the School of Finance, Government, and International Relations at the Universidad Externado de Colombia and Assistant Professor at the School of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences at the University of Twente - The Netherlands.

 

Luis Antonio Orozco is a Full Professor in the School of Management at the Universidad Externado de Colombia and a senior researcher at the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. 

Jaime Humberto Sierra González is Associate Professor in the Business Department in the School of Business and Economics - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia.

Javier GarcÃa-Estévez is Assistant Professor in planning and territorial development at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Development Studies at the University of Los Andes, Colombia.

Isabel Bortagaray is a Professor at the Institute of Sustainable Development, Innovation and Social Inclusion at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay.