A importância das redes para o desenvolvimento da inovação tecnológica : um estudo com empresas de base tecnológica vinculada a incubadoras de universidades comunitárias gaúchas.

Abstract

This presentation is taking in consideration that technological innovation does not result from individual or isolated initiatives, but it is a result of collective construction, which aim to identify in which aspects the Rio Grande do Sul innovation networks help in the promotion and successful of technological innovation. The problem for this research is to find out how the Rio Grande do Sul innovations network help like connections tools amongst technology-based companies, government agencies and universities, supporting and promoting the technological innovation achievement. The based used for this research is the communitarianism theory, mainly the thinking by Amitai Etzioni. This research shows the main aspects of communitarianism thoughts that does refers to innovation development as a collective process and dependent of cooperation; show the Brazilian public policies to the technological innovation and National Innovation System; and describes the efforts of communitarian university at Rio Grande do Sul to promote innovation and technology development in their incubators companies, whose scope and limits are measured based on the perceptions collected in interviews with company owners of companies linked to incubators of communitarian universities in Rio Grande do Sul. Conclusions shows and reinforce how important are innovation networks, actions of sharing cooperation and technological innovation. This research is connect to the Master Degree Program in Law of the University of Santa Cruz do Sul - Unisc. The method of approach is hypothetical-deductive and procedure is the experimental. The research technique consists of bibliographical research, documentary and interviews.