From community of practice to network of practice: a study of the evolution of a startup community in the city of Belo Horizonte

• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, Tatiane Barleto Canizela
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Gonçalves, Luciana Castro, Vale, Glaucia Maria Vasconcellos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; fra
• Título da fonte: Cadernos EBAPE.BR
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/68004
• topic: Community of practice. Networks of practice. Dynamics of innovation. Interorganizational relationships.; Comunidad de práctica. Redes de práctica. Dinámicas de innovación. Relaciones interorganizacionales.; Communautés de pratique. Réseaux de Pratique. Dynamique d’innovation. Relations inter-organisationnelles.; Comunidade de prática. Redes de prática. Dinâmicas de inovação. Relações interorganizacionais.

This research explores the relationship from the literature of community of practice and network of practice in an evolutionary process in a context of innovation. An analysis of the knowledge and resources exchanges of the San Pedro Valley entrepreneur’s network, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, shows its evolution in three distinct participation/reification processes that mark the growing legitimacy of the city’s innovation ecosystem. From an informal group emerges an inter-organizational community of practice, which is progressively transformed into a network of practice according to a continuum, where the practice co evolves together with the ecosystem that is reinforced.