ALTEC and technology management in Latin America: Innovation systems, territory and bonding

The seminars of the Latin-Ibero-American Association of Technology Management (ALTEC) they are one of the most important spaces in this region for the discussion of the research in the discipline of innovation and technology management. This article presents a brief panorama of the main thematic areas approached in 14 seminars carried out by that association from 1985 until the year 2011. In this context, a group of 25 articles is presented, which discuss in this volume the aspects macro of the management of the innovation, such as the construction of favorable environments for the innovation, the form like the innovation is managed in specific territories and the linking forms among the actors in the innovation processes.