Case of the "Business Incubator of the Universidad de La Frontera" - Incubatec UFRO

Abstract

With the changes experienced in food  production, agribusiness needs to serve increasingly exigenous markets that seek to understand how, when and where they are producedfrom their food. Adding this with the great need to increase the volume of food due to aggregate demand from factors such as population growth, urban expansion and the reduction of agricultural areas, makes food producers more productive and competitive in  the domestic  and foreign markets.  An important way       out of this is investment  in innovation, whether by public or  private funds, which focus on the development of agribusiness or agroindustry, such as product differentiation. In order to understand a country focused on the foreign market and on delivering greater added value to its customers (more demanding), this study focused on the"Business Incubator of the Universidad de La Frontera" - INCUBATEC UFRO.  For this,     an exploratory research was conducted, based on secondary and  qualitative data that were previously published in FINOVAGRO-2020 in order to identify what are the factors that condition the success in the  production of food  Chilean companies.  It was found that   Chile is  a major    exporter, and therefore there is  a large input of public investments that generate innovations to meet the requirements  of international markets, aiming at the internationalization of their products, for  through the differentiation of these. There is also a technological policy, used as a principal strategy,  innovation   programs focused on products with added value, important critical mass formation, skilled labor to operate in some production chains (as in the case of salmon) and  the development of new products that  are export  targets, such as those mentioned above.  It is notepoint that the results found by the authors are part of the     author's   master's project "Innovation Environments for the Generation of Startups of  Agri-Food System:  Case Study In  the Ibero-American Sphere", which at the present date has not yet been published.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/tfisdwv1-111