%0 Journal Article %T An¨¢lisis de la capacidad tecnol¨®gica en Pymes metalmec¨¢nicas: una metodolog¨ªa de evaluaci¨®n %A Velosa Garc¨ªa %A Jos¨¦ Divitt %A S¨¢nchez Ayala %A Luz Marina %J Revista EAN %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X pymes from the metal sector need to improve their entrepreneurial performance so that this allows to develop competitiveness in existing global markets. these advantages can be achieved in different ways, but one of the most important current ones is through the production system (hill, 2000). this article describes a methodology to measure the technological production capacity in pymes from the metal sector, aiming at evaluating management in the areas of designing and manufacturing, and based on results new strategies are proposed through which these companies improve their technological capacity. %K competitiveness priority %K technological capacity %K performance %K designing and manufacturing. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-81602012000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en