ICT Innovation Management in States Enterprises: A perspective from the Venezuelan Legislation

Abstract

The aim of this study was to review the legal bases on which innovation in Information and Communication Technologies in Venezuelan public companies is based. The following are established as observation units: The Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (1999), Plan of the Fatherland Act 2019-2025, National Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation 2005-2030, Organic Law of Federal Governing Council, Organic Law on Telecommunications (2000), Information Government Act (2013), and the OrganicLaw on Science, Technology, and Innovation (2010); considering the whole unity of analysis. It is a nonexperimental research of documentary type applied as a research technique, the documentary review. Criteria for categorization and analysis included: interest and impulse; organization, structure, and spaces; promoting of training; and financing for ICT innovation. The results demonstrate the existence of a robust legal framework, based on the interest of the State to promote, and finance the development of innovation in ICT, the training of innovators and the creation of spaces for purpose. It is concluded that, although ICT innovation is not specifically typed, it is assumed as a derivation of innovation in a general way.