Interaction between design processes and innovation in the gastronomic equipment industry in Peru

Abstract

In Peru, in recent years, significant progress has been made as part of the objective of eliminating obstacles in the gastronomy value chain and identifying, in the current offer, factors that improve its quality, proposing actions to improve competitiveness. Meanwhile, the metalworking industry has shown a pronounced growth in recent years, also recovering exports, but has had less encouraging results in innovation indicators, which places Peru in the 89th place, out of 140, of the economies of the most competitive countries worldwide. Therefore, the main objectives of this research are the identification and analysis of the advances of gastronomic equipment developed in Peru, due to the enormous gastronomic growth evidenced as a result of the contribution of the State, the Academy and the Private Company. A descriptive research and a qualitative characterization of four specific cases of the cities of Lima and Arequipa is carried out, determining the opportunities that the sector has to improve its competitiveness and innovation. Product innovations developed in recent years and which have highlighted technical aspects of engineering design processes are examined, where the metallurgical sector involved is mainly represented by the small company. Thus, the way design is applied during innovation processes has been determined and key topics of study have been identified, as well as its impact on the interaction between design and innovation processes, through a proposed model using the diagram IDEF0 (Integration Definition for Function Modeling).