Editorial

ID: 4617

Authors: Wilson Suzigan.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 7-8, January-June, 2011. 2 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Ideias Fundadoras - apresentação: "The accumulation of capital" de Joan Robinson

ID: 4623

Authors: Claudia Heller.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 9-15, January-June, 2011. 7 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese)

Ideias Fundadoras: "The accumulation of capital"

ID: 10130

Authors: Joan Robinson.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 17-33, January-June, 2011. 17 page(s).

Document type: Article (English)

The structuring of the sugar cane innovation system: the roots of the Brazilian Ethanol Program (Proálcool)

ID: 4618

Authors: Fabrício Brollo Dunham, José Vitor Bomtempo Martins, Denise Lima Fleck.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 35-72, January-June, 2011. 38 page(s).

Keyword: Combustible alcohol , Ethanol , System of Innovation

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article shows the important role played by the structuration of the System of Production and Innovation in Sugar and Ethanol – SPIS – before 1975 in the success of the National Ethanol Program – Proálcool. This program was implemented in November 1975 and is considered a benchmark for the Brazilian capacity in substituting fossil liquid fuels for renewable sources of energy. The analysis of technological change in SPIS was based on maps of functions which influenced SPIS from 1875 to 1975. This article identifies six different motors that are accountable for the changes in SPIS before 1975. These motors can explain the differences between the productive models in the Northeast of Brazil and the State of São  the growth of ethanol market in Brazil; and the productive expansion of sugarcane industry in the State of São Paulo and its relationship with the equipment industry.

Diffusion of innovation among consumers linked in social networks

ID: 4619

Authors: Herbert Kimura, Eduardo Kazuo Kayo, Luiz Carlos Jacob Perera.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 73-100, January-June, 2011. 28 page(s).

Keyword: Computational Simulation , Diffusion of Innovations , Mathematical Modeling , Social Networks

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

In the computational model developed in this article, we study the dynamics of diffusion of information or innovations, aiming to identify how ideas, technologies or products are spread among individuals within a social network. Results suggest strong dependence of the spread of technologies to the initial conditions of the population, reflected by the initial distribution of the propensity of individuals to accept a new idea or product. When there is aversion to innovation, efforts should be focused on influent individuals that lead others in their social network to break barriers and adopt new products. Additionally, one should privilege strategies that make people give greater weight, in their decision making, to certain stimuli they receive. In this context, the fact that a product or an idea be in fashion affects the propagation speed. Marketing programs, special discounts and increased number of connections in social networks are relevant strategies.

What drives the formation of technological cooperation between university and industry in less-developed innovation systems? Evidence from Brazil

ID: 4620

Authors: Ana Luiza L. de Araújo Burcharth.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 101-128, January-June, 2011. 28 page(s).

Keyword: Innovation Systems , Institutions , Technological Cooperation , University-Industry Interactions

Document type: Article (English) Show Abstract

Interorganisational patterns of collaboration have long been recognised in the literature for their potential to promote learning and innovative capabilities, in particular those encompassing university and industry interactions. Yet they are scarcely found in underdeveloped Innovation Systems such as the Brazilian one and little is known about why or how they are established. Drawing upon a comparative case study, this paper investigates in which context technological cooperation between university and industry emerges in Brazil. The findings indicate that the formation of technological cooperation is a co-evolutionary process, which emergences from the practice of knowledge sharing with external partners, as well from the connecting effort of ‘linked scientists’.

European environmental requirements: new competitive challenges for Brazilian electronically sector

ID: 4621

Authors: Stela Luiza de Mattos Ansanelli.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 129-160, January-June, 2011. 32 page(s).

Keyword: Electronic Sector , European Environmental Requirements

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the implications of the european environmental requirements for electronic equipment on brazilian electronic industry sector. These determinations deal with elimination of hazardous substances and management of electronic products waste and have reached not only the electronic sector companies in international level, but brazilian electronic sector as well. Most brazilian companies of the electronic sector are getting complied with the requirement that restricts the use of hazardous substances. The main consequences of this process are technological innovations and changes on contractual relationships among companies. Foreign companies branches are more advanced than local ones in terms of timing of compliance to the new requirements and technological performance, showing an alignment with headquarter strategies. Not being complied with these requirements avoid companies to achieve commercial benefits and open space for questions about policies Brazil must take.

Routines – a theoretical review

ID: 4622

Authors: Rosiléia Milagres.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 161-196, January-June, 2011. 36 page(s).

Keyword: Characteristics of Routines , Patterns of Behavior , Roles of Routines , Routines , Rules

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article intends to discuss the concept of routines and introduces the main advances in this field in the last years. The discussion about this concept – an important element in the neo-Schumpeterian theory – has been increased recently and various authors, included those connected to correlated areas like strategy, innovation and organizational change, have looked for a better understanding about it. In this way, a visit to the literature produced became an important point of departure. The first section of this article shows the recent debate about the concept of routines, and classifies the literature in three interpretations. Following there is a discussion about the origin of routines – their micro-foundations and their perspective in the level of firms. And at least I discuss the recent main contributions in theoretical and empirical area about roles and characteristics of routines.

Instituto Biológico de São Paulo

ID: 4624

Authors: Maria Alice Rosa Ribeiro.

Source: Revista Brasileira de Inovação, v. 10, n. 1, p. 197-224, January-June, 2011. 28 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese)