Innovative Culture in Small and Medium Enterprises

• Autor(a) principal: Mambrini, Aluisio Broering
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Cintho, Seiji, Dattein, Erni Dattein, Arias Medina, Jorge Antonio, Maccari, Emerson Antonio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Gestão e Projetos (GeP)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/gep/article/view/9412
• topic: Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Competitiveness; Small and Medium Enterprise.; Inovação; Empreendedorismo; Competitividade; Pequena e Média Empresa.

In the last two decades, innovation has been a key driver of economic growth. Innovation is closelyrelated to creating value and generating wealth through successful service to consumer needs. Thus,it is not necessarily restricted to the use of new knowledge generated from research, but on thedevelopment of new products or services that are obtained with creative use of knowledge, new oralready known. This study aimed to identify management practices that promote a culture ofinnovation in small and medium enterprises and analyze how they contribute to the innovativecapacity of these companies. The research method was the multiple case study with six small andmedium businesses that have at least one case of significant innovation in its history. The mainresults showed that amongst the practices are: a) performance in highly specialized niches and deepfocus on customer needs; b) strong investment and incorporation of new knowledge outside thecompany (open innovation); c) speed and agility in the absorption and deployment of newknowledge and technologies; d) retention of employees; e) acting as an integrator combiningdiverse knowledge and technologies; f) the information management of the knowledge acquired bythe company; g) little concern to patent the technology; h) flexibility and informal, fluid and opencommunication between employees of the company that promotes agility in management and i) themanagement of partnerships across the value chain, including the functional areas.