Cross-sectoral cooperation (CSC) has gained recognition as the key to achieving sustainable development goals within a locality. However, existing studies focused on sustainable local development (SLD) initiatives resulting from CSC remain sparse. This article aims to review the CSC–SLD literature, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method. Research questions were constructed using the PICOC (population, intervention, comparison, outcomes, and context) structure. The identification of scientific works occurred through the search of relevant keywords, which resulted in a final set of 38 peer-reviewed manuscripts, from 1994 to 2021. First, the main driving forces for adopting CSC, to achieve SLD, which are dispersed at multiple levels, were captured and contextualised into the micro-, meso-, macro- and mega-framework. Second, salient aspects addressed in the literature for effective CSC implementation were identified and classified into approaches, governance, structure, key actors, psychological and social aspects, and experiences themes. This resulted in a consolidated guiding principles framework for implementing CSC, to pursue SLD. Additionally, the use of theories in different aspects of CSC–SLD initiatives was discussed. This study informs the practitioners, policy-makers, and researchers the fundamentals that need to be considered when planning, designing, and implementing effective CSC interventions for SLD.

El objetivo del presente estudio es utilizar el coeficiente de competencia experta (K) para el proceso de selección de expertos que participaron en la validación de contenido y confiabilidad de diseño de una red de cooperación científico-tecnológica. La red esta enfocada para la gestión de prácticas profesionales en el contexto intersectorial (universidad-gobierno-empresa) en la Península de Paraguaná, estado Falcón, Venezuela. Se aplica la metodología Delphi como técnica de predicción y participaron 17 expertos. Los resultados evidencian que los expertos muestran un alto nivel de argumentación respecto al conocimiento de redes de cooperación y gestión de prácticas profesionales. Se determinó el coeficiente de concordancia de Kendall (W), el cual muestra que los juicios emitidos por los expertos tienden a estar correlacionados con las estimaciones del diseño de red. Se concluye que el diseñó de red propuesto es confiable y válido en cuanto al contenido para su implementación.

A la luz de investigaciones en América Latina y Colombia los retos que enfrenta la educación para el siglo XXI, otorgan relevancia al rol del gerente educativo fundamentado en un estilo de liderazgo. Por consiguiente, el objetivo de este artículo es analizar la gestión asociada al liderazgo estratégico del directivo docente y su contribución al mejoramiento del Índice Sintético de Calidad Educativa. Para ello, se empleó un enfoque de investigación cuantitativa, cuyo diseño fue de naturaleza documental y de campo. Destacan como resultado las capacidades y habilidades inherentes al gerente educativo con difusa claridad sobre un estilo de liderazgo identificado por la comunidad escolar. La gestión del rector y su equipo está vinculada a la necesidad de un estilo de liderazgo estratégico que fortalece las acciones y estrategias en correspondencia con la dinámica institucional. Se concluye en la necesidad de definir en el ámbito educativo procesos de gestión innovadores que desde el liderazgo estratégico del directivo contribuya al mejoramiento del Índice Sintético de Calidad Educativa en atención a los componentes de progreso, desempeño, eficiencia y ambiente escolar.

This article aims to build a network for the exchange of knowledge between the government and production, community and university sectors for sustainable local development. To achieve this, the authors relied on the concepts of sustainable local development, social capital, the relationship between sectors or intersectorality, networks and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge. Regarding the methodology, the abductive method was used. Under a documentary design, the research techniques were a content analysis of theoretical documents and the deductive inference technique. The construction of a knowledge exchange network for sustainable local development stands out as the result. It is concluded that knowledge networks for sustainable local development have positive implications in the establishment of alliances and links between the sectors that make up society.

PURPOSE: The trends promoted for the strengthening of capacities that allow the interaction and valuation of knowledge as an intangible asset, deserve a management based on its transfer as a basis that drives innovation. Based on this, the purpose of the study is to examine the relationships between knowledge transfer (KT) and sustainable innovation (SI) in interorganizational contexts of small and medium-sized companies. METHODOLOGY: A process was carried out through the application of a questionnaire addressed to managers and owners of 109 small and medium-sized companies of activity in management and the development of information and communication technologies in two regions of Colombia. To show the significant differences between the two selected populations, a non-parametric Mann-Whitney test for independent samples was applied. Likewise, an application of the K-means algorithm was used to group the variables into subsets. The study of the data was complemented with the multivariate technique and the principal components analysis (PCA) to validate the contrasting of the declared hypotheses. FINDINGS: The results determine that by means of the Mann-Whitney non-parametric test for independent samples there are significant differences between the two selected populations. Likewise, the positive correlation between the variables of knowledge transfer and innovation is confirmed, as well as designing the interactions and the flow of processes between the components that support the aforementioned variables from the theoretical and empirical approach, whose interaction capacity between them has to promote the innovative potential under sustainability principles in small and medium-sized enterprises. IMPLICATIONS: Based on the results of the research carried out, scenarios are promoted through which it is sought to strengthen the interorganizational management of small and medium-sized enterprises, minimizing the barriers that weaken their stability. As well as promoting new ways of valuing knowledge as an intangible asset that, when transferred, generates effects in innovation management as part of the strengthening and interorganizational sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises. ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: It is based on the generation of value through the proposal of a design of a system of relations between the components that promote the transfer of knowledge and sustainable innovation. Its structure is based on empirical results that allowed defining five strategic stages that show the relationships between the components that promote interorganizational and competitive management of tangible and intangible assets available in small and medium-sized enterprises.