Knowledge Management Strategies to Improve Competitiveness by Incorporating Renewable Energy into Small Companies Called “Mipymes” in Colombia

Abstract

This paper about knowledge management strategies to improve productive processes in Small and Medium size Enterprises - SMEs through the benefits offered by a law that allows the incorporation of renewable energy for cost reduction, improvements in competitiveness and making more efficient products and services. The Generation of energy from renewable sources is an alternative to the supply, support, and interconnection of electricity to meet the energetic needs of homes and companies, these sources are characterized by being friendly to the environment, decreasing impacts caused by traditional electric power generation systems.

Law 1715 of 2014, “By which it is regulated the integration of Non-Conventional Renewable Energies - NCRE - mainly Renewable to the National Energy System”, encourages the use, promotes development and provides the opportunity to natural and legal people to invest in projects of NCRE and energy efficiency management EEM. Through tax, commercial and financial incentives which are very important in the purchase, implementation, import, research, advice, and development to satisfy the country’s electricity sectors. Based on the above, the main objective of this study is to analyze how the incorporation of renewable energy sources impacts the cost of producing goods or services in small businesses, to make them more competitive, exploring in the framework of the efficient use of energy also consider the possibility of taking advantage of the incentives offered by Law 1715 of 2014.