Dynamics of accumulation of capability for innovation: evidence from software firms in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

• Autor(a) principal: Miranda, Eduardo C.
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Figueiredo, Paulo N.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Texto Completo: https://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rae/article/view/31306
• topic: Technological capability; software companies; technological accumulation; innovation dynamics; competitiveness; Capacidade tecnológica; empresas de software; acumulação tecnológica; dinâmica de inovação; competitividade

There still is a scarcity of studies examining the dynamics of the accumulation of innovative capabilities. This paper examines such issue in eight software companies in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, finding that: there were inter and intra-company differences in terms of speeds of capability accumulation for specific technological functions; younger companies have accumulated capabilities more rapidly; speeds of capability tended to decrease as companies accumulated more innovative levels of capabilities, offering a prospect for the acceleration of the innovation process. Such evidence is to deepen our understanding of the firm-level technological accumulation process,= and provide some notion of the time needed to obtain the benefits from efforts on learning and innovative capability building.