GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS: A HYPOTHESIS A FROM A MULTIPLE STUDY OF USE CASES RATIONAL AND EFFICIENT ENERGY IN MICROEMPRESAS TRADITIONALS OF MEDELLÍN-COLOMBIA

Abstract

Until recently various studies and consultancies had been made on energy efficiency in Colombian companies, most of them sponsored and financed by the Planning Unit Mining and Energy and the Ministry of Mines and Energy, but all concentrated in the large enterprises or SMEs. However, despite that microenterprises represent about 96% of the Colombian business community, only recently with the project Rational and Efficient Energy Use in Microenterprise Unit of Medellin, began to study this business segment specifically. The aim of this paper is to present some results of the study, in particular those relating to energy management model designed to seek to introduce in the microenterprise field technological and social innovations that allow them to face their problems of productivity, competitiveness, and social sustainability and environmental. Such a
model is a system of governance in which different types of actors (private, public and community) interact to overcome various market failures and state. The paper
is structured as follows: after the introduction, in the first part, based on extensive research and multiple case studies in Medellin, Colombia, described the efficient
use of energy in traditional microenterprises; then in the second part it presents a model of energy management to make that more efficient and sustainable,
economic, social and environmental use, and concludes that it can be assimilated to a new model of governance in social innovation processes.