Title:	Technological regimes, firms' resources and capabilities, and patterns of innovation at firms in the brazilian food industry: evidence of cases in the meat and dairy sectors.
Authors:	CABRAL, J. E. de O. MOURA, M. Q.
Affiliation:	Jose Ednilson de Oliveira Cabral, CNPAT; Michele Queiros Moura, UFC.
Date Issued:	2007
Citation:	In: CONGRESSO DA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE ECONOMIA, ADMINISTRAÇÃO E SOCIOLOGIA RURAL, 45, 2007, Londrina.. Conhecimentos para agricultura do futuro: anais... Londrina: SOBER, 2007.
Description:	The objective of this paper is to identify the prevailing “pattem(s) and the major industrial and firms’ determinants of innovation” at firms in the Brazilian food industry (BFI). This objective is achieved through in-depth case studies of three food firms’ innovative activities in the meat and dairy sectors. The innovation dynamics over time was assessed and the findings provided insights about pattems of technological innovation and their relationship with technological regimes and firms’ innovative and complementary assets dimensions. An analysis of the firms’ documentation, such as intemal reports. organizational charts, advertising and institutional materials, was initially undertaken. Thus, the main study tool was the undertaking of in-site personal interviews. The number of informants varied between one and three. The interview began by asking him or her to describe the “history” of the firm and also detail the firm’s innovative possibilities, given its inherent technological regime, and the firm’s innovative characteristics. The key findings provide evidence that the influence of technological regime over industrial patterns of innovation is moderated by firms’ innovative and complementary assets. Hence, from the technological regime initially available, firms can follow different innovative strategies depending on their resources and capabilities. This applies either on “go up”, quantitatively and qualitatively, the innovativeness in cases of “poorer” technological regimes in opportunities, and as on “go down" the technological regime characterized by “richer” opportunities.
Thesagro:	Laticínio
Keywords:	Economia da tecnologia Economia da inovação Indústria de alimentos Carnes
Type of Material:	Artigo em anais e proceedings
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em anais de congresso (CNPAT)