Por: Ruth Escobar Juárez, Ángela Barreda Ramírez y Cindy Bautista Chávez, Women in Mining Perú.

Abstract

The world of medium and large Peruvian mining has had in the last decade an important awakening to internal innovation strategies and an accelerated transformation of its innovation ecosystem, combining the interaction of intrapreneurship and open innovation to innovate in search of adding value to its internal processes; with the understanding that innovation is not a passing fad, but rather that, to be successful in this field, it is necessary to build and maintain a culture of innovation. 

And as two sides of the same coin, the innovation culture of an organization is known by what is perceived through its participation in the surrounding innovation ecosystem, as well as by how this innovation culture is lived within the companies. 

Theory tells us about strategies and barriers to innovation culture in an organization; in mining practice, some of these have already become myths and others are still vibrant reality.