Information tecnologies in small and medium Mexican companies

Abstract

This paper discusses the importance of ICT among SME´s in terms of changes in production and organization process, the public-private institutional network and its advantages to create social capital. Also we discuss the poor ICT incorporation into internal and external management of SME´s, the disequilibrium between ICT infrastructure and software applications and the weakness of institutional network as determinants of limited use of ICT to extend SME´s competences. The basic axes are: a) To identify the SME´s role to improve the national competitive strategy applying ICT´s and; b) To analyze the effective articulation among public-private institutional network to incorporate, develop and adopt new technologies.