ID: 54582
Authors:
Pedro Henrique de Oliveira, Ana Cláudia Fernandes Terence, Marco Antônio Catussi Paschoalotto.
Source:
Revista Brasileira de Gestão e Inovação, v. 7, n. 1, p. 110-137, September-December, 2019. 28 page(s).
Keyword:
Incubation , Innovation , Small business , Strategy , Technology-based company
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
The small technology-based companies have innovation as a constant in their management. However, they have specificities that influence their process of strategy formation and their innovation practices. Also, many of the technology-based companies [TBC] start their activities supported by an incubator and, after the incubation period, fail to share the infrastructure and synergy provided by the program. Then, the purpose of this article is to identify the innovation practices and the process of TBC strategies formations in the incubation and post-incubation periods. As methodology was used a multicase study was carried out in four TBCs, characterized as qualitative and exploratory. The results indicate that TBC depend on innovation, especially on technology, for its growth and development. In addition, there is a tendency to formalize innovation practices consonant with the process of strategy formation. In the early stages of the company, companies present informal processes, emerging strategies and are open to innovation. With administrative maturity, the TBCs have a more rigid structure, systems and controls and a formal and deliberate process of strategy creation. These characteristics in the process of management and strategy creation affect their innovation practices, which are distinguished in the incubation and post-incubation periods.