Green businesses represent a strategy for coordinating production with conservation in the Colombian Amazon; however, their consolidation continues to be limited by deficiencies in knowledge management and in the coordination of capacities for innovation. The objective of this study was to identify the relationships between capital, dynamic capabilities, and innovative performance in Amazonian green companies, using multivariate analysis. The results showed that knowledge-related capabilities (acquisition, transformation, and information management) are the factors that most strongly influence innovation. Pearson’s correlations confirmed positive associations between these variables and innovative performance. In the structural model, absorptive capacity emerged as the central axis of the system (β = 0.911; p < 0.001; R2 = 0.83). We conclude that strengthening absorption capacity and organizational learning are the most important variables for improving innovation and sustainability in Amazonian green businesses. These findings provide robust evidence to inform the design of public policies in Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) with a differentiated territorial approach, aimed at strengthening capacities, developing financing schemes for sustainable innovation, and consolidating multi-actor territorial governance structures, which are essential to foster resilient bioeconomy ecosystems in the Colombian Amazon.
Jiménez et al. (Fri,) studied this question.