ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides an insight into innovation thinking and practice, particularly in Latin America. It focuses on the idea that innovation although influenced by a variety of forces has to be framed in order to understand what binds together the 'management of and for innovation'. This framework offers practitioners, policy makers and academics alike a tool to understand how innovation evolves and can be shaped. The book explores innovation within the energy sector and Colombia. Their contention, like that of Diamantini et al., is that participation and cooperation stimulate innovation, a feature Diamantini et al. contend training can encourage. Other mechanisms offered include information communication technology. The chapter identifies government as occupying a key role in supporting research directly through the creation of appropriate legal frameworks to ensure robust intellectual property rights.
