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This paper aims to determine which configuration of green innovation capabilities (GICs) and organisational dimensions (ODs) leads to achieving green product innovation (GPI). We used data collected through the European Manufacturing Survey (EMS) from manufacturing firms in Spain and Croatia considered to be innovators.After conducting a cluster analysis, we identified a group of firms that still develop conventional product innovations (CPIs) and three groups of firms at different stages of GPI development. The four clusters were characterised using different variables, or determinants of GPI, associated with seven GICs and five ODs that favour GPI.According to the findings, all the GICs and ODs under analysis have a positive impact on GPI development, which results in the consolidation of a framework that organisations could use to manage green innovation. By empirically showing the relevance of applying these constructs, this study makes contributions to the Resource-Based Theory (RBT), along with its extension to GICs, and points to the need to associate them with the ODs to achieve GPI towards the challenge of sustainable development.

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This article proposes a methodology to evaluate Technological Innovation Capabilities at university institutions, seeking to strengthen innovation management and advance in the integration of said institutions in the dynamics of the innovation system. The Triple Helix Model is adopted to analyze the relationships of university institutions with their surroundings. The proposal is conceptually built on a based on the perspective of resources and capabilities and on to the systemic congruence model of the organization. A fuzzy inference system is developed as the mathematical support of the evaluation process of the Technological Innovation Capabilties. The methodology is experimentally applied to a university institution in Medellín -Colombia, demonstrating its consistency, viability and practical usefulness.

Article derived from the Magister degree project called "Design of a Surveillance System in a Higher Education Institution for the analysis of trends, using an observatory for capturing and evacuating information, to support the innovation management in companies located at the South of the Aburra Valley", in the Magister program on Innovation Management, Cooperation and Regional Development from Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano (Medellín-Colombia).

La estrategia Cluster le ha permitido a la ciudad de Medellín en Colombia, identificar sus capacidades productivas y enfocar el desarrollo de las mismas, ejemplo de ello es el plan de desarrollo 20082011 donde se estructura el plan de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación 2011-2021 como base para construir el futuro de ciudad líder, orientada a una alta competitividad apoyada en el desarrollo de la innovación. Por ende, este estudio pretende identificar el aprovechamiento de los recursos que brinda el entorno local, regional y global para desarrollar innovación, consultar los modelos de innovación existentes y determinar incidencias en la competitividad. Para ello se implementó una metodología de tipo cualitativa, a la vez que fueron realizadas entrevistas a profundidad en dos casos de estudio representados por instituciones innovadoras del Cluster de medicina y odontología. Se encontró que hay conciencia de la importancia de la innovación para desarrollar una mayor competitividad en los mercados que atienden las instituciones reflejado en que la innovación hace parte de sus objetivos estratégicos, desarrollando procesos en su implementación, con asignación de recursos y además con conciencia de la relevancia de interactuar con otros actores del mercado especialmente del cluster.

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