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La Innovación Organizativa y de Gestión como Motor de Dinamización Empresarial
Get PDFManagement, also called organizational innovation is an essential driver of business renewal, notably in the case of service firms, where technological innovations and scientifically based R&D are of less relevance than in manufacturing. In this article, we analyze the role of management innovation as a source of value creation for firms. We draw on commercial archaeological activity in Spain as a case study of a growing business activity closely related to knowledge-intensive, specialized services. Innovation dynamics in archaeological firms set the base for analyzing the significance of organizational innovation in corporate development and renewal. Finally, the paper explores the strategic and organizational impact of management innovations on specialized services
Selecting University Technology Transfer Modes: An Examination of Biotechnology Firms’ Entrepreneurial Orientation
Get PDFUniversities use technology transfer to disseminate groundbreaking knowledge to biotechnology firms. Each transfer mode—licensing, sponsored contract research, and consulting arrangements —offers biotechnology firms an opportunity to acquire a unique bundle of knowledge and resources. This study proposes that an entrepreneurial orientation (EO) may influence a firm’s selection of a specific technology transfer mode. An EO reflects a firm’s willingness to innovate, take risks, and become a first mover. This strategic orientation may guide managers to select a transfer mode that not only fits a firm’s needs but also enables it to gain an advantage. This study uses multinomial logistic regression to examine how a DBF’s innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking influence a DBF’s transfer mode selectio
Social Enterprises in Brazil: Socially Produced Knowledge Versus Social Innovation.
Get PDFThis study investigated whether socially produced knowledge in social ventures in Brazil has promoted social innovation and local development. The research is exploratory and descriptive, and was developed in two stages. At first, the sample group was composed of 378 projects selected from the mapping of Solidarity Economic Enterprises, conducted by the National Secretary of Solidarity Economy (Secretaria Nacional de Economia Solidária). The sample was surveyed to verify the main characteristics of these enterprises. After that, interviews were conducted with key managers in a sample of 32 projects. The results indicate challenges in the long path of favoring dynamic learning, with a generation of knowledge from the collective experiences of socialization: there is a lack of joint discussion and a predominance of individualized learning actions
User-Producer Interaction in the Brazilian Oil Industry: The Relationship between Petrobras and its Suppliers of Wet Christmas Tree
Get PDFThe objective of this work is to analyze the importance of the user-producer interaction for the innovative process of the Brazilian oil industry from the 2000s. To do so, we selected two of the three providers installed in Brazil that produce the set of valves used in the oil wellhead to control its production, set which is called wet Christmas tree (WCT), the Norway\u27s Aker Solutions and the American FMC Technologies. The results of this analysis indicate not only the development of the oil industry in Brazil is marked by a strategy of cooperative innovation, but they also reveal the importance of geographical proximity and direct cooperation, especially between the centers of engineering and research and development of companies. Furthermore, these partnerships are not limited to the adaptation of products to new needs, but they also include the development of new systems
Caracterización de las Redes Científicas Interinstitucionales Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Sede Medellín- Colombia
Get PDFScientific networks make reference to a set of actors that are associated because they have mutual achieving in the attainment of objectives and results of knowledge previously agreed. In recent years, they become a major mechanism of cooperation between higher education institutions and has shown that through them you can tackle complex problems that individually would be difficult to approach. In this sense, we present a characterization of the main scientific networks of a university in Colombia in order to get a diagnosis of trends and typology of relationships and to measure the impacts of belonging to them in terms of scientific production and technology
Methodology for Evaluating Innovation Capabilities at University Institutions Using a Fuzzy System
Get PDFThis article proposes a methodology to evaluate Technological Innovation Capabilities at university institutions, seeking to strengthen innovation management and advance in the integration of said institutions in the dynamics of the innovation system. The Triple Helix Model is adopted to analyze the relationships of university institutions with their surroundings. The proposal is conceptually built on a based on the perspective of resources and capabilities and on to the systemic congruence model of the organization. A fuzzy inference system is developed as the mathematical support of the evaluation process of the Technological Innovation Capabilties. The methodology is experimentally applied to a university institution in Medellín – Colombia, demonstrating its consistency, viability and practical usefulness
Gestión y Desarrollo de Empresas Innovadoras
Get PDFThe New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) represent, for its flexibility and organizational and business capacity, a source of innovation that leverages the local development potentials in which they are found. However, the difficulties such enterprises have to confront if they want to be inserted in a competitive market can become barriers to its development. The NTBFs success is strongly influenced by the management model in place since the start of its activities, even before the legal incorporation of the company. This paper presents a method of NTBFs management and development based on a methodology called CEC (Collaborative Venture Capital) developed by a group of angel investors acting since 2008 in Brazil. For illustrative purposes, we analyze the case of a successful startup, supported by that group
Producción más Limpia en el Sector Biotecnológico
Get PDFIn this work we present a cleaner production (CP) method was applied to the production process of Erythropoietin in the biotechnological field. CP production potentials were identified from rapid and complete evaluations made during plant processes. Process areas where improvements in the use of water resources, energy, waste generation and waste disposal could be made were determined. The proposed CP method enabled the increase of environmental innovations of the studied process and in addition it can be applied to other biotechnological institutions with similar characteristics to those of the studied process
R,D&I in Electric Sector: a Management Model
Get PDFThis study was carried out with the support of the companies of Eletrobras (Chesf, Furnas, Eletronorte and Eletrosul) and seeks to develop an integrated management model that incorporates technology and innovation. The model should be concerned with the performance of companies, aligning R, D&I [Research, Development and Innovation] projects with business strategies. The project was undertaken by an in-depth bibliographical review of the subject and a series of guided interviews. These interviews were conducted in both national and international companies that were regarded as innovative in several different sectors, in an attempt to identify practices that could be employed by companies in the electric sector. The findings of this research allowed the development of an integrated R,D&I Management model which is formally set out here as the results of this study
Social Technology as a Sustainable Public Policy: The Mandalla Project in Ceará
Get PDFEnvironmental degradation in semi-arid Northeast has been a great challenge for the Brazilian government. The need to generate employment and income, justifies the establishment of productive activities competitive and covering the dimensions of sustainability. In this context, there is the movement of Social Technology (ST), aimed at social inclusion and development through the appropriation of simple technologies, inexpensive and consolidated in the culture of the community benefit. As a public policy of the government of Ceará, appeared the Mandalla Project, using irrigated agriculture and agribusiness production system, which includes the creation of small animals from natural methods. This study aims to analyze the ST Mandalla as a public policy that promotes sustainable development. The results show that this technology, contributes significantly to the sustainable development of semi-arid and improving the quality of life of communities served when examined against the dimensions of Sustainable Development model of Sachs (2002)