A inovação e aprendizado coletivo: interação e cooperação de empresas de base tecnológica em incubadoras de empresas

Abstract

This thesis looks for to identify, the process of innovation through the collective learning and the results gotten for nine companies of technological base, installed in three Incubators located in Rio De Janeiro. The study it involved field research, with application of together questionnaire to the incubators companies, standing out the on aspects to the innovation, cooperation and learning. The used questionnaire searched to identify the institutional drawings, the learning forms, interaction and cooperation enter the different integrant actors of the incubator and its relation with the university, and the result presented under the form of products and innovative services. The theoretical referential was elaborated on the basis of national and international bibliography, especially in the considered authors neo- Schumpeterian, passing for the institutionalists, that are analyzing the enterprise moment to the light of the new technological paradigms and its impacts in the organizations. Authors are distinguished who work the on aspects to the university/company partnership, the technological innovation, entrepreneurship, collective learning for interaction, productive arrangements, nets of knowledge and incubators of companies. The study he looked for to go deep itself on the processes of technological and organizationais changes. He had as objective the inquiry on as if he gives to the process of collective learning for interaction university-company and cooperation company-company and looked for to evaluate the results gotten for the incubates companies, through the creation of products or new processes. It left of the hypothesis of that the development of products or of innovative processes in the companies of technological base it to a large extent occurs for the process of collective learning that occurs in the incubator, through the relations of the companies with the university, of the interaction and cooperation between them and the localization of the incubator in the outskirts of the university.