AGROSAVIA Innovation Networks
The main purpose of the corporate model is to contribute to technical change by improving the capacity of the agricultural producer via linking the technological offer to a territory and integrating knowledge generated by the different actors in the sector through knowledge management in innovation networks with a territorial approach. It is based on the social relations that human beings establish in the economic, political, cultural, and environmental spheres, recognizing that in recent decades, the concept of territory has gone beyond the physical delimitation of a space, allowing national and regional interaction and representation (AGROSAVIA, 2017; Corporate Model).
One of the model's bases is knowledge management through innovation networks, which energizes and integrates the organizational structures of productive chains and systems at the national and regional levels. AGROSAVIA's seven innovation networks are cocoa, permanent crops, transitory and agro-industrial crops, fruit trees, livestock and minor species, vegetables and aromatic plants, and roots and tubers. The networks operate and are articulated through the network architecture. This mechanism shows the participation and relationship of actors at internal and external levels.
Knowledge management in innovation networks seeks internal and external synergies to articulate actors according to their capacities and strengths to meet the demands of the territories in terms of R+D+i. The technological offer (TO) generated must be relevant in the territories and respond to the producer's demands, establishing a constant feedback dynamic for its assessment and impact measurement.