Investimento em pesquisa e desenvolvimento : estudo de caso das empresas da Região do Vale do Taquari.

Abstract

This study aims at identify and analyze the investments that have been done in research and development – R&D, using as study case some corporations of Vale do Taquari region, that is localized in the central area of Rio Grande do Sul state. The theoretical debate about the innovation theme, albeit being an extensive concept that involves behavioral aspects, has stimulated a critical reflection about the organization realities and its relation to the Regional Development. This analysis uses the Manual of Oslo as a reference, whose principal aim is to define and uniformize some concepts related to the innovation theme in the organization and to define a standard of research. The Manual of Oslo was translated to the Portuguese language in 2004 under the responsibility of FINEP – Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos – which has stimulated its adoption in Brazil. Using the exploratory-descriptive method with qualitative and quantitative approach to evaluate the cases, there was done the thematic analysis of the collected data during the field research in a sample of companies that employ over 250 people, localized in Vale do Taquari region. The reality studied was observed from the analysis of the results of the indexes and from the interviews with the executives of the studied companies. In this way, there were searched more pragmatic subsidies to evolve in this analysis, complemental to the theoretical analysis, because there arose the necessity of a more effective contribution of the entrepreneurial sphere, so that it was possible to observe more concretely a regional panorama about this theme. There was verified, at the end, a distance between the resources destined to the incentive programs of the Federal Government and the effective use of the resources by the regional companies, as well as a lack of measurement of investments in R&D in a systematized way.