Estratégias, gestão da inovação e sistema setorial de inovação: um estudo do setor de telecomunicações brasileiro

Abstract

This thesis attempts to study the elements that compose and make conditions to the innovative dynamics in the Brazilian telecommunications sector. Therefore, the essay analyses the predominant innovations, the agents that promote the innovation and the relationship between them. In the last decades, the telecommunications sector has provoked deep social and economic changes, which propitiated benefits and facilities to many different areas, such as leisure, education, health and entertainment. The purpose is to study the innovative capacity of this area, which is always facing changes of technological and institutional patterns. The work tries to study the strategy of change adopted by companies, as well as to identify the organizational structure, the way as the management innovation is done and the inter-relations between the agents who compose the sectorial system innovation. The theoretical base of this study has the works from Gallouj and Weinstein (1997), Bilderbeek and Hertog (1999), Sundbo and Gallouj (1998), the Manual of Oslo (2005) for innovation in service, the studies of Bessant et al. (2001) and Mintzberg (2003) for innovation management and, finally, Malerba (2002) for sectorial system of innovation.The corpus is composed by twelve interviews with managers, responsible or directly linked to the development areas of products and services. The most relevant companies, in Brazilian context, were selected, since operator companies, equipment manufacturers, services providers and research institutes. The halfstructured questionnaires have been used to collect data in order to support the analysis process of the innovation management of these companies. The first chapter presents the specialised bibliography. The second shows the characteristics of the telecommunication sector in Brazil, in order to review shortly its history. Third part is based on project s aims. The fourth chapter deals with the research procedures and the last part supports the analysis process and the interviews. Besides, the study verifies if the enterprises are conscious of having a proper strategy to innovation and how they construct an organizational support to this purpose. Finally, the major bulk is to show the principal type of innovation of this sector and to contribute to the studies about the innovation process in the telecommunication sector in Brazil.