| Summary: | Among the critical issues facing policy and decision makers is how to improve the
regional innovation systems (RISs), as such improvement enhances the development of
organizational innovative capacities, encourages innovation performance (IP), and
consequently helps achieve sustainable economic development. Results of the present study
allowed the construction of the institutional map of an RIS, for understanding the role of
formal and informal institutions that compose the institutional framework, which enable or
hinder the IP within the organizations of the quadruple helix.
The RIS of Medellin was used as an instrumental case study, and the research was
conducted using a qualitative, cross-sectional design, semi-structured interviews as data
collection method and thematic analysis as data processing method. Research findings remark
the importance of innovation supportive culture, as the main informal institution affecting the
IP, as well as the crucial role of the investment, incubation and acceleration of innovation
projects, through formal institutional mechanisms enabled by private and public actors.
Collaboration and interaction are the rationale behind the existence of an RIS; reason why
when analyzing the institutions of an RIS it is logical to find that many of them are related to
these particular factors. Findings also suggest that informal institutions exert a greater
influence over the IP of organizations in an RIS, than formal ones, but both types of
institutions are very important, and should be complementary. === Tesis
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