Government has a fundamental role in the development of an efficient national innovation system, strong enough to allow the development of R&D and innovation in firms. Thus companies constantly expect several programs and ...

This work contributes to consolidate academic research on innovation capacity. A systematic methodology was applied to review the literature since 1991. The recovered literature was analyzed and synthesized into a ...

The main objective of this paper is to improve the understanding of the phenomenon of innovation in service companies. It focuses on the idea that in order to study and understand how innovation processes take place, a ...

There still is a scarcity of studies examining the dynamics of the accumulation of innovative capabilities. This paper examines such issue in eight software companies in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, finding that: there ...

Despite the profusion of studies of firm-level technological capabilities studies, over the past 30 years, there is a scarcity of analyses on similarities and differences across firms, of the same industrial sector, in ...

This article aims to understand the relationships between small companies and external innovation agents and how they can help strengthening these organisations. A multiple case research method was adopted by the researchers ...