SMEs in Santa Cruz, Analysis, Distribution and Innovation Linked to the use of Information and Communication Technologies

Abstract

The research project asociated to this publication aims to study and approach the University to the SMEs located on the region in order to determine the outstanding features in matter of Management. The project searched to investigate SMEs and determine specifically if it do Strategic Planning, if the Human Resource policies are linked to the planification and if these companies are incorporating tecnological innovations and how it incorporates technological advancement in the production function. To acomplish this objetive it has been made a survey campaign that allow the study and inferring the behavior of the organizations in respect of several of these aspects, this publication, has achieved characterize the SMEs in general concepts and evidence the progress and the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies in SMEs, explaining the main innovation mechanisms in this area.