This paper describes a pilot project for incubating cooperative regional innovation networks (CRIN) around three problematics related with regional sustainable development: water, housing and goat milk production and quality. Incubation was designed as a two-step action learning process named Problematic-Innovation Cycle (P-l Cycle). Participants collectively elaborated a set of increasingly complex set of representations, from ante-narratives and dynamic models to scenarios. Action group learning was facilitated in several settings where systems concepts and tools were applied. Four different approaches -Complex Adaptive Systems, SECI, System Dynamics and Model Based Agent- were applied to model the incubation process. The project took place in Coahuila, a northern Mexican State, with the voluntary participation of stakeholders of each addressed issue. Two types of results were obtained -knowledge systems on each addressed problematic and incubation models- which have being incorporated into a State action-driven -policy making effort to strengthen the regional innovation system by enhancing social capital as a key stock to launch cooperative innovation efforts.
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