This work comprises of the doctoral investigation of its author. The importance of the work is in the necessity to study a modern and important organizational phenomenon at the moment for the companies as it is the innovation of organizational type. The author presents some partial results of his doctoral research which seeks to bring advances in the scientific community on the issue of the type of organizational innovation. This has led to bring the issue of open innovation from the perspective of the type of organizational innovation.The scene of the study are businesses located in Colombia in Cartagena considered industrial and tourist city thanks to its geographic location, which has enabled it to develop three types of industries. These are: Petroquimica-plastico, logisticapuertos and tourists.