The processes of innovation and rural producers: the road tour

Abstract

This article, presents a brief approach to the development of innovation processes directed and applied in small and medium rural producers (PMPR). Emphasizing elements that affect the generation, appropriation and use of innovations, taking into consideration the way in which it arrives and the innovative process is developed, such as the spaces they have for socialization and generation of knowledge that supports the development of them. Considering the innovation processes as core aspects to achieve development. Transitioning from a central policy approach to the territorial element of action, in a coming and going of approximations, confirmations and appropriations, where knowledge, its spaces, its links and relationships are the fabric that supports, maintains and drives the participants to face and reach new challenges. With this idea, the innovative work, centered in a productive sector and in two rural territories, trying to reveal how the induction has been and what results has been achieved so far.