Assessment of strategic technology and innovation management capacity. Application case Indio Hatuey Experimental Station

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Abstract

It is recognized in Cuban enterprise practice that there are persistent insufficiencies that impede the materialization of R&D efforts in new or improved goods, services or processes, denoting low levels of performance in technological management and innovation, an aspect that draws attention to whether they have developed the capabilities to manage these two variables. This work proposes a procedure for the diagnosis of the strategic management capacity of technology and innovation (CAGETI), using scientific and empirical research techniques such as the Delphi expert method, mathematical modeling based on the Compensatory Fuzzy Logic (CFL), statistical analysis, checklists and teamwork. Its validation in the Experimental Station of Pastures and Forages "Indio Hatuey", a scientific institution founded in 1962, a benchmark of R+D+i in Cuba, with a high prestige in the Cuban and international scientific sector, allowed determining a low performance of CAGETI and identifying its causes; according to the results it was concluded that there is still a gap in the management of technology and innovation at the organizational level, locating the greatest opportunities for improvement in the management capacity of skills and knowledge for innovation (CAGCCI).