Collaborative innovation in agrometeorology: coordination strategies to develop a monitoring IT system for Brazil.

• Autor(a) principal: BAMBINI, M. D.
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: COLTRI, P. P., FURTADO, A. T., ZULLO JUNIOR, J.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/987542
• topic: Agrometeorologia; Tecnologia da informação e comunicação; New technology; Meteorologia; Inovação; Agrometeorology; Information technology

This case-study article presents the results from a morphology analysis of a knowledge and information network, focusing on the coordination mechanisms employed to generate a convergent arrangement. Agritempo was the first information system to offer (in 2003) free access to a broad range of agrometeorological data comprising all the Brazilian territory, representing an important technological innovation to the agricultural sector. To study this phenomenon an analytical framework of the Techno-Economic Network (TEN) and concepts from the Innovation Sociology field was employed. Results indicate that the durability of this arrangement ? from 2003 to 2014 ? can be explained by the effectiveness of the coordination strategies established in the network such as: trust based relationships; institutional and individual leadership actions; contracting; software applications and shared common working procedures.