Abstract

ALIZO, María Alexandra; GRATEROL, Angela  and  CHAVEZ, Belkis. Economic Management Linked to Technology Innovation and Acquisition in Emerging Business Enterprises of the SME type. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.51, pp.462-485. ISSN 1315-9984.

The objective of this study was to analyze the economic management factors linked to technology innovation and acquisition for the emerging business enterprise (EBE) of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) type in the Maracaibo Municipality, State of Zulia, from 1999 to 2006. The methodology used was a descriptive, exploratory field study based on the research objectives; it was also qualitative, since it used some analysis techniques belonging to social representations, such as the saturation technique, which consists of exhausting actor responses in the context to be investigated. Results denoted some very significant characteristics in emergent business enterprises of the SME type; among others, they do not have highly technified equipment for developing productive processes, very few develop technological innovation and establish strategic alliances with organisms that generate science, technology and innovation, even when full awareness exists of the importance of the aforementioned factors in economic management for the emerging entrepreneur in this municipality.

Keywords : Economic management; technological acquisition; SME-type emerging enterprise.