Redes sociais e recursos em empresas de base tecnológica : o caso das empresas da incubadora Softnet
Abstract
Companies incubators can be considered the center of a relationship network
comprised by companies, government agencies, universities and research centers. The support
offered to incubated companies was designed to accelerate the implementation of new
organizations and make them competitive in the market. Therefore, companies networks
inserted in these environments favor the exchange of information and cooperation for use of
these resources to the development of new products, thus supporting innovation and business
competitiveness. Considering that, the aim of this study was to investigate the social networks
and resources of Softnet incubator and their incubated software companies, analyzing the
networks, regarding its structure, nodes, connections and flows, and identifing shared
resources between companies belonging to Softnet. For this, we interviewed the managers of
Softnet incubator and Cubo TI, Onion and NeoInfinito interprises. Our results demonstrated
the close relationship between available resources and cooperated social networks, since most
available resources drives companies to seek the creation of networks, leading to the
perception that cooperation provides benefits that would hardly be achieved in isolation and
contributed to the understanding of the organizational environment in which incubated
technology-based companies operate and Softnet incubator.