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Innovation Environment in Small Technology-Based Companies

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Title Innovation Environment in Small Technology-Based Companies
 
Creator Fiates, Gabriela Gonçalves Silveira
Fiates, José Eduardo Azevedo
Serra, Fernando Antônio Ribeiro
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal
 
Subject Small Technology-Based Companies; Innovation Environment;TBCs
 
Description Innovation has been identified as a strategy to achieve competitive advantage, particularly in contexts of change and especially for technology-based companies – TBCs. Although the adoption of innovation strategies is not easy, small companies have an organizational environment more conducive to innovation. This article examines how managers and employees of small TBCs perceive aspects of the internal environment of innovation in the organization (culture, organizational structure, personnel and infrastructure) and their suitability for the innovation process. This is a qualitative research from a multicase study on five companies located in an incubator. Data were collected through open interviews, using a semi-structured script, with one of the managers and two employees from each company. Data were analyzed from preliminary content analysis. The results showed some discrepancies between the perceptions of managers and employees about the issues investigated and their suitability for the innovation system, as well as between reality and the theoretical basis used.
 
Publisher Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
 
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Date 2010-11-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/art163
10.4067/S0718-27242010000300006
 
Source Journal of Technology Management & Innovation; Vol 5, No 3 (2010); 81-95
Journal of Technology Management & Innovation; Vol 5, No 3 (2010); 81-95
0718-2724
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/art163/582