Capacidade relacional em alianças estratégicas de inovação: um ensaio teórico para o desenvolvimento de um modelo conceitual

Taísa Scariot Preusler; Priscila Rezende da Costa; Tatiane Baseggio Crespi

doi:10.5585/exactaep.v18n1.8475

Authors

Taísa Scariot Preusler EMBRAPA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0136-9040
Priscila Rezende da Costa PPGA UNINOVE http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7012-0679
Tatiane Baseggio Crespi Embrapa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-8069

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/exactaep.v18n1.8475

Keywords:

R&D, Innovation, Strategic aliances, Relational capacity.

Abstract

It is challenging to conduct research and development (R & D) internally and in isolation, due to high financial resources and knowledge demand. Thus, strategic alliances formation is an alternative to provide resource base complementation to an organization. However, their performance depends on the relational capacity, that is, on a set of established routines and processes to manage and create value from the established interaction. This article aims to develop an innovation generation conceptual model in strategic alliances context through relational capacity. For that, a theoretical essay of exploratory nature was carried out by means of a bibliographic review. Finally, contributions are presented to relational capacity conceptual field, involving research propositions about the formation of strategic alliances with different institutions (of greater or lesser connection with the market) and also about the multiple objectives of the alliances (for research or development).

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Author Biographies

Taísa Scariot Preusler, EMBRAPA

Mestre em Administração pelo programa Minter da Universidade Nove de de Julho (UNINOVE) (CONCEITO CAPES 5) em parceria com o Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional no Alto Uruguai (IDEAU). Especialista em Economia e Gestão Empresarial e graduado em Secretariado Executivo Bilíngue pela Universidade de Passo Fundo (2007). Atualmente atua na área de Gestão de Contratos na Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Experiência na área Secretarial e em Administração Pública.

Priscila Rezende da Costa, PPGA UNINOVE

Doutora em Administração pela Universidade de São Paulo, FEA USP, 2012. Mestre em Administração pela Universidade de São Paulo, FEA RP USP, 2007. Graduada em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Lavras, UFLA, 2005. Foi Coordenadora do Curso de Graduação em Administração da UNINOVE, 2010-2014. Atualmente é professora da Universidade Nove de Julho, UNINOVE, no Programa de Pós-graduação em Administração, Mestrado e Doutorado, Linha de Inovação, lecionando as seguintes disciplinas: Seminários de Dissertação; Seminários de Tese; Fronteiras do Conhecimento em Metodologia da Pesquisa; Gestão e Internacionalização do Empreendedorismo Inovador; e Tópicos Especiais em Inovação. Também é professora do curso de Graduação em Administração da UNINOVE e atua na coordenação técnica e acadêmica do Programa Escola da Ciência. É editora científica dos periódicos International Journal of Innovation (IJI) e Innovation & Management Review (IMR), além disso, é avaliadora de periódicos na área de Administração, tais como: Revista de Administração da USP (RAUSP); Revista Brasileira de Gestão de Negócios (RBGN); Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia da FUNDACE (RACEF); Future Studies Research Journal; Internext; Gestão & Regionalidade; Desenvolvimento em Questão; Revista Ciências Administrativas; Revista GeAS; Revista de Gestão e Projetos; Revista Gestão e Secretariado; e Exacta. É líder de Grupo de Pesquisa do CNPq, intitulado Estratégia de Inovação, e no âmbito do grupo coordenou projetos de pesquisa financiados pelo CNPq: Projeto n° 471875/2014-7, intitulado Geração de Inovações para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável: Um Estudo com Empresas de Base Tecnológica de Economias Emergentes (2015-2017) e Projeto n° 108313/2017-4, intitulado Capacidades Relacional e Absortiva para Geração de Inovações: Um Estudo com Born Globals Brasileiras (2016-2017). Também participa dos seguintes grupos de pesquisa: Gestão e Modelos da Inovação (UNINOVE); Inovação e Sustentabilidade (UNINOVE); Núcleo de Política e Gestão Tecnológica da USP (PGT/USP); Núcleo de Pesquisas em Inovação, Gestão Empreendedora e Competitividade da USP (INGTEC); e Inovação na Era Digital (UFABC). Tem experiência na área de Administração e seus principais temas de pesquisa são: cooperação empresa-universidade, capacidades dinâmicas, capacidade relacional, capacidade absortiva e internacionalização da inovação.

Tatiane Baseggio Crespi, Embrapa

Mestre em Administração pelo programa Minter da Universidade Nove de de Julho (UNINOVE) e Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional (IDEAU), Especialista em Genética e Evolução Biológica e Bacharel em Ciências Biológicas pela Universidade de Passo Fundo. Analista na Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária – Embrapa

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