Estratégias para o poder público municipal promover a inovação tecnológica: um estudo de caso no município de Francisco Beltrão

Abstract

An environment conducive to sharing information and enabling environment for innovation is able to provide the economic and social progress. Techno logical innovation then became relevant subject, and the regional point of view the difference for local sustainability. In this prospect, this study aimed to devise strategies to the municipal government to promote technological innovation in companies. The data were collected through qualitative and quantitative approach. The study was characterized as exploratory, descriptive survey. The mapping from a spectrum of industrial town of Francisco Beltrão, questionnaires were applied to identify the rates of innovation enterprises operating in areas of greatest economic importance, because they are potentially innovative. Among these, those who were interviewed had levels of innovation too high or too low, based on the range set as the default by statistics, in order to analyze the knowledge of these laws against companies that encourage innovation and knowledge about the actions imposed by stakeholders and the municipal government. Were also interviewed stakeholders working as partners in the city and representatives of municipal government in order to verify the effectiveness of the actions provided by these and come to the attention of companies. The main results indicated an overall low rate of innovation by the town of Francisco Beltrão. Another point raised is the very low number of companies that know the laws and local incentives the local government and ignorance of stakeholders to enhance innovation. The highest knowledge of these actions was the companies participating in the core of information technology, unique in the city core. So, were proposed to the municipal government strategies to promote technological innovation. Among the major include: actions to the legal environment with the creation of credit lines, public policies and laws, creation of innovation networks, new core businesses with input from stakeholders, promoting an innovative culture through seminars, meetings, debates and programs to generate ideas, and encourage exchange among universities, businesses and government.