c. *Components:*


The elements of the system maintain specific relationships among themselves. Adequate promotion, orientation, and intensity of these relationships make it possible to achieve the system's objective. The administration of the system is carried out by the general management of each SME, which determines the allocation, amount, type, and use of financial, technological, human, and administrative resources, through the company's innovation strategy. The innovation strategy comprises the analysis, decisions, and actions that create, strengthen, and exploit innovation capabilities to achieve innovations.

**Figure 2** shows the relationships between the elements of the innovation system for SMEs in the dairy sector.
