Editorial V. 14, N. 4, 2017

ID: 47395

Autoria: Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Jr., Felipe Mendes Borini.

Fonte: Innovation and Management Review, v. 14, n. 4, p. 279-279, Outubro-Dezembro, 2017. 1 página(s).

Tipo de documento: Editorial (Inglês)

An Analysis of Industrial Districts and Triple Helix of Innovation – A Regional Development Experience in the South of the State of Rio de Janeiro

ID: 47396

Autoria: Marcelo Amaral, Raphael Lima, Gustavo da Silva Motta, Mariana Fagundes, Marília Schocair.

Fonte: Innovation and Management Review, v. 14, n. 4, p. 280-280, Outubro-Dezembro, 2017. 1 página(s).

Palavras-chave: CSN , Innovation management , Privatization , Production networks , Regional economic development , Triple Helix

Tipo de documento: Artigo (Inglês) Ver Resumo

BThis work consolidates a research effort to analyze 70 years of economic development in the region of the Paraíba do Sul River, in the south ofthe state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper follows the trajectory of the leader company, steelmaker Companhia Siderúrgica National, and itsrelations with other local actors, such as government and universities. The research question investigates if the steel market is still the company’score business and its evolution in the competitive global production network. This work introduces a different exploratory approach, analyzingproductive networks using an industrial district typology and the linkages based on the Triple Helix of university–industry–government. Theliterature review and case study show the first transition, after the privatization process in the nineties, transforming a state-owned company witha focus in the national market into a transnational corporation with business on four continents. The second transition, from the steel market toa globally integrated production chain of mining and steel is underway. The region’s configuration migrated from a company town in a state-centered model to a central-radial arrangement. The second migration to a satellite platform is in progress. Regarding technology development, thecompany’s strategy changed from in-house research and development to buying technology. There is a recent effort to recreate interaction spacewith universities.

Why Do Small Businesses Innovate? Relevant Factors of Innovationin Businesses Participating in the Local Innovation Agents Programin Rondônia (Amazon, Brazil)

ID: 47397

Autoria: Váldeson Amaro Lima, Carlos André da Silva Müller.

Fonte: Innovation and Management Review, v. 14, n. 4, p. 290-300, Outubro-Dezembro, 2017. 11 página(s).

Palavras-chave: Cognition for innovation , Cognitive maps , Innovation factors , Small businesses

Tipo de documento: Artigo (Inglês) Ver Resumo

BoriniAbstractThis study aimed to present the most relevant cognitive factors that influence innovation in activities of small businesses participating in theLocal Innovation Agents program in Rondônia (Amazon, Brazil). Cognitive maps were used as a methodological approach for the study of agroup of small businesses within the context of the project. The results indicated the existence of 14 relevant factors mentioned by the businessesassessed, highlighting two influence factors mentioned by all participants in some casual relationship, therefore, a consensus: “need for survival”and “knowledge and experience”. These factors indicate, respectively, motivation and innovation process management of the companies studied.The different relations among the factors allowed identifying two groups within the program. They differed primarily in regard of willingness toinnovate and development of learning levels that influence innovation activities resulting from the interaction with the program’s agents.

Intellectual Property and Patent Prospecting as a Basis for Knowledge Andinnovation – A Study on Mobile Information Technologies and Virtualprocesses of Communication and Management

ID: 47398

Autoria: Sirlei de Almeida Pereira, Luc Quoniam.

Fonte: Innovation and Management Review, v. 14, n. 4, p. 301-310, Outubro-Dezembro, 2017. 10 página(s).

Palavras-chave: Communication , Intellectual property , Management , Mobile information technologies

Tipo de documento: Artigo (Inglês) Ver Resumo

Information and knowledge are essential drivers of innovations, technological development, and transformations that foster organizations’competitiveness and constantly change the way people communicate, interact, and work. To hold information and knowledge means the pos-sibility of expanding capacities and ensuring access to opportunities that may bring competitive advantage and economic growth. Consideringthese assumptions, the purpose of this study was to demonstrate how inventive actions can be collected and correlated as a source of information andknowledge for a given subject. In order to do so, we established as research elements the following topics: mobile information technologies, mobilecommunication, and management, and we looked for them, in a correlated way, in patent databases. This is a descriptive qualitative study, withsecondary data collection in patent bases such as the websites Espacenet.com, Wipo.com and Patent2Net, which provide information on patents’registrations. We used the Gephi software for analysis and visualization of network structures. Through the use of specific filters, considering thethree topics together, the results showed 213 patents filed in the period 1988–2015, and a concentration of records between 2012 and 2013, when32% of them were registered. In addition, China was responsible for 40% of patent applications, followed by South Korea, with 24%, and theUnited States and Japan, both with nearly 11% of the total.

Characteristics of Brazilian Scientific Research on Diffusion of Innovations in Business Administration

ID: 47399

Autoria: Caio Giusti Bianchi, Júlio César Bastos de Figueiredo.

Fonte: Innovation and Management Review, v. 14, n. 4, p. 311-320, Outubro-Dezembro, 2017. 10 página(s).

Palavras-chave: Brazilian scientific production , Diffusion of innovations , International innovation

Tipo de documento: Artigo (Inglês) Ver Resumo

The aim of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of Brazilian scientific research in diffusion of innovations in administration. A bibliometric research was conducted with network analysis in scientific papers about diffusion of innovations in Spell database. The papers were analyzed from descriptive, bibliographic, methodologic, results and citation characteristics. The authors concluded that Brazilian publications are coherent with the international research considering the adoption of diffusion of innovations frameworks. Still, it has a trait of considering government support in diffusion frameworks, an absent parameter in the original frameworks; therefore, representing a development potential for diffusion of innovations researchers in Brazil.

Product, Process, Marketing and Organizational Innovation in Industries of the Flat Knitting Sector

ID: 47400

Autoria: Paula Patricia Ganzer, Cassiane Chais, Pelayo Munhoz Olea.

Fonte: Innovation and Management Review, v. 14, n. 4, p. 321-332, Outubro-Dezembro, 2017. 12 página(s).

Palavras-chave: Case study , Flat knitting industry , Marketing innovation , Organizational innovation , Process innovation , Product innovation

Tipo de documento: Artigo (Inglês) Ver Resumo

Innovation practice contributes to economic development by fostering the development of new markets and the improvement of existing markets.This study aimed to identify the innovations in the flat knitting industry that occurred between 2008 and 2011. This applied nature study considersboth qualitative and quantitative approaches with exploratory and descriptive purposes as its research method. A survey addressed to managers of23 flat knitting industries was conducted. Data analysis was carried out in two stages: in the qualitative stage, content analysis of the interviewwas performed, while in the quantitative stage, a descriptive quantitative analysis through correlation statistics was used, in order to identify thelevel of relationship between the variables of the theoretical construct. The results of the qualitative stage showed that the flat knitting industryinvests in innovation compatible with the market demands and fashion trends. The quantitative results identified relationships among the variablesnamed annual turnover, number of employees and amount invested in marketing innovation. In addition, correlations were also observed among thevariables skilled workforce and amount invested both in product and organizational innovation, and a relationship was identified between amountinvested in product innovation and amount invested in marketing innovation.

Battery Global Value Chain and its Technological Challenges for Electricvehicle Mobility

ID: 47401

Autoria: Ailton Conde Jussani, James Terence Coulter Wright, Ugo Ibusuki.

Fonte: Innovation and Management Review, v. 14, n. 4, p. 333-338, Outubro-Dezembro, 2017. 6 página(s).

Palavras-chave: Automotive industry , Electric vehicle battery , Global value chain , Sustainable innovation , Urban mobility

Tipo de documento: Artigo (Inglês) Ver Resumo

Development in electrical energy storage has attracted several researches due to its solutions multiplicity. The research focus of this study was toidentify the main features of battery global value chain for urban light electric vehicle in South Korea and Japan. The global value chain is utilized toanalyze company core competencies to achieve cost reduction and product differentiation, thereby increasing productivity and profits, and finally,the macroeconomic growth of a country. Interviews, to obtain primary data, have performed overseas at Japanese and South Korean companies,involved in the production and sales of batteries. From the data analysis, it can be inferred that there are global integration prospects of the valuechain with the production of some components out of these Asian countries and Brazil as a potential participant. This exploratory research hasmixed methods of data gathering, i.e., triangulation. With regards to data collection, documents available from companies were analyzed; plantsand R&D centers were visited to performing interviews with executives. Within the global value chain, ensuring lithium supply has become priorityfor companies. Thus, lithium mining could be a path for Brazil to become part in the battery global value chain. This argument is justified in twoways. First, Brazil has technology and experience in mining provided by the Vale Company. Large lithium reserves are in neighboring countriesin South America. Second, Argentina is a MERCOSUL member and it could be beneficial to both countries to extract lithium for batteries. Themain technical challenges faced by electric vehicle are the battery lifetime as well as the need for a specific charging infrastructure. Furthermore,Brazil will face challenges and opportunities in developing high-value activities within battery global value chain. The public policy suggested isto map the components from battery global value chain and highlighting those that can or should be produce in Brazil for strategic technologydevelopment.