TY - JOUR T1 - Multi-Actor Network Perspective: CaliBaja an emergent binational innovation ecosystem JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sylvia Mónica Pérez-Núñez A1 - Arturo Serrano-Santoyo KW - innovation ecosystems KW - Networks Analysis KW - regional development AB - To contribute to the field of management of technology and innovation, this paper focuses on a multi-actor network perspective to map stakeholders and identifies key actors in CaliBaja’s binational innovation ecosystem. This region has a unique territorial extension and population dynamics. It is a land of opportunity for global businesses, houses world-class colleges, universities and applied research institutes, and has been recently acknowledged as a global innovative mega-region. We apply social network analysis to this region as an innovative and valuable methodology to identify significant local contributors, defined as according to key elements and success factors that promote and establish communication and interaction among the network stakeholders. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1320 IS - 1 U1 - CETYS Universidad Dr. Sylvia Mónica Pérez-Núñez, holds a PhD in Global Development Studies from the Faculty of Economics and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Baja California, México in 2016. She has conducted research stays in 2012 in Costa Rica at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture in the Area of Biotechnology and Biosafety and in 2015 at the Institute of Philosophy, Department of Science, Technology and Society of the Higher Council for Scientific Research with headquarters in Madrid. She currently collaborates as a full-time professor at the School of Business Administration at CETYS Universidad, Tijuana campus, where she teaches the subjects of Introduction to International Business, Geography of International Business and Human Being and Sustainability. In addition, she is a member of the Research Institute in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Social Change at the same university U2 - CICESE Dr. Arturo Serrano Santoyo, holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City in 1980. In 1981, he received the ALCATEL Annual Telecommunications Award and in 1986 was honored with the ERICSSON Telecommunications Award. He has been a consultant for the Organization of American States and the United Nations as well as for many private companies and governmental agencies in the areas of Innovation, Development and Digital Transformation. Dr. Serrano is member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering and author of the books Telecommunications in Latin America, The Digital Divide: Myths and Realities, and Digitalization and Global Convergence. He is currently a researcher at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) and professor at CETYS Universidad and the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico. ER -