Orquestração de redes de inovação na Serra Gaúcha: os papeis dos orquestradores e sua relação com a competitividade

Abstract

Innovation has become essential for the competitiveness and wealth generation of organizations, with open innovation being a growing model in organizations, emphasizing the need to integrate external knowledge to optimize innovative processes. This approach highlights the need for organizations to cultivate broad networks of connections and relationships to foster innovation. The idea of an innovation ecosystem emerges, representing networks of organizations that collaborate to exchange ideas, share information, and establish guidelines. Innovation networks established in cities are orchestrated by different actors that compose them, and understanding the network dynamics within these ecosystems becomes essential to promote interorganizational innovation. The objective of this research is to investigate the roles and activities of the orchestrators of the innovation network existing in the city of Caxias do Sul in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, as well as the impact of this action on local competitiveness. To achieve this objective, a qualitative case study was developed, which included eight semi-structured interviews with representatives of the quadruple helix. The results demonstrated that the interrelationship between the roles of orchestrators and the dimensions of orchestration are complex and situational, with differentiation in the number of connections between the roles, highlighting, in this study, the role of the Leader. Another finding of the study is the emergence a posteriori of a new category and a new orchestrator role, related to communication, which corroborates with recent research. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]