Inovação aberta como fator relevante para fluxos reversos de conhecimento: uma investigação no setor de O&G no Brasil

Abstract

This paper investigates open innovation in subsidiaries of foreign multinational companies located in emerging economies, and inserted in high-tech industrial clusters, to investigate if the collaborative process of co-creation is determinant for reverse flows of knowledge to occur. Due to specific technological needs of the Oil & Gas segment, we propose that the interaction between the companies and the cluster fosters collaboration and open innovation. Starting from a reverse innovation typology existing in the literature that considers reverse innovation processes occurring only within the multinational company, we have expanded the model, bringing together open innovation concepts and industrial clusters to propose this new arrangement. The case study of a multinational company of the Oil & Gas sector located in the technological cluster of Rio de Janeiro seemed quite suitable for the observation of these phenomena. We expect to contribute to the theory of innovation flows in multinational companies, by suggesting that reverse innovation is determined by the way subsidiaries relate to local actors through open innovation processes.

Fatores Que Influenciam a Inovação Aberta: Análise Do Apl Iguassu-It De Tecnologia Da Informação Do Oeste Do Paraná

“…Essa perspectiva encontra respaldo no fato de que as competências internas relacionadas à inovação não são suficientes (Jesus, 2015), e principalmente porque, isoladamente, leva-se um tempo longo para inovar, o que é incompatível com a realidade atual do mercado (Andrade, 2015;Cortonesi & Cahen, 2016). Desse modo, as mudanças tecnológicas exigem maior mobilidade de capital, conhecimento e trabalho no menor tempo possível, impossibilitando que as empresas utilizem somente recursos próprios (Chesbrough, 2010).…”