O Sistema de Inovação em São Carlos sob uma abordagem sistêmica e a análise de redes
Resumen
São Carlos City comprises a set of organizations that have some kind of relationship
(formal or informal, rare or intense) among themselves and with local companies, thus
being one of the São Paulo State Technology Pole. In the city, there are actors
responsible for the knowledge production: the scientific institutional environment is
responsible for 5.3% of national scientific production. Edquist (2004) defines an
Innovation System (IS) from the determinants of innovation process: all important
economic, social, political, organizational, institutional, and other factors that influence
the development, diffusion, and use of innovations (p. 182). Considering the dynamic
of the set of organizations existing in São Carlos as an innovation system, this thesis
characterizes the articulation between the parts of this system. The analysis framework
includes IS concepts with locational (national, supra-national, regional) or sectorial
basis, searching for topics in the systemic approach proposed by Edquist and in the
social network theory to map the relationship among the agents of the innovation
process. The main contribution of this work is the quantitative and qualitative
characterization of the innovation process activities in São Carlos, in a systemic
approach, including: research and development, education, manufacturing, articulation
and support, generating of new enterprises, and institutional conformance.