Innovación en las empresas apoyada en las redes conocimiento

Innovation is essential in companies, for their permanence in the market, so the objective of the work is to identify the presence of innovation in MSMEs, the type of innovation that has been carried out in them and the participation of knowledge networks as support in business innovation, as well as the significant relationship between innovation and knowledge networks. The theoretical-conceptual construction integrates various approaches derived from analytical frameworks such as knowledge and innovation networks. Methodologically it is approached qualitatively, to analyze specific processes that identify the type of innovation, adopted by companies and when innovation is the result of the relationships that arise between the different actors that participate in a knowledge network. The results are presented quantitatively and qualitatively. The sample is integrated at convenience by 258 Mexican MSMEs, in which a questionnaire of 26questions was applied; in the period June 2020 to February 2021. The results show the relationship of innovation with knowledge networks and how the latter have supported innovation and what benefits it has brought to companies, for their permanence in the market. Finally we mention that the types of innovation identified are: in the product, in the service, in the process, in the market and organizational innovation. Having as a limitation to focus solely on innovation for the permanence in the market of companies.