La innovación y su relación con la productividad en el sector de la construcción en el Ecuador.

Abstract

The construction industry has been key to the economic development of the country, due to its great dynamism, becoming one of the most important sectors in Ecuador due to the development of infrastructure projects that allow the population to develop their activities providing buildings, housing plans, in addition to providing jobs to people directly and indirectly. But, the market is competitive so companies must increasingly improve their efforts based on innovation to obtain better results in productivity within organizations. For this reason, this research project is focused on analyzing the incidence of innovation on productivity in the economic sector of construction in Ecuador. For her, a set of specific objectives were developed, starting with the foundation of the theories that focus on innovation and how it affects productivity in construction companies in Ecuador, finding the assumptions of Say and the contributions of Smith and Schumpeter that allowed identify factors that are directly related to production such as investment, machinery improvement, acquisition of technology equipment and software. Next, a descriptive correlational study was methodologically designed with a quantitative approach to obtain data provided by the Superintendence of Companies database. Finally, the results indicate that the factors alone do not influence productivity unless the human element does not predominate, which must be trained and trained to make use of any innovative equipment or solution to improve productivity.