ABSTRACT
In this chapter we argue that networking capabilities are an essential complement to interactive learning capabilities in driving innovative performance within fragmented innovation systems (IS) in developing country contexts such as El Salvador. This argument is developed through an in-depth case study of how networking capabilities emerge and are developed by the Cooperative Association for the Agro-industrial Production, Procurement, Marketing and Financing of Panela (ACOPANELA) cooperative of producers of evaporated sugar cane juice as the basis for the non-industrialized sugar know as panela.
