O sistema local de inovações da indústria de software de Joinville: os limites da diversificação de um meio inovador

Abstract

The challenges forced by the recent techno-economic changes, have determined a process of revaluation of the knowledge built by social relations, which becomes the motor of the economic activity. The potential of development of the regions is associated with their capacity of adapting to these changes and to generate a constant flow of knowledge. In this context, the northeast region of Santa Catarina, more precisely the city of Joinville, is a clear example of the diversification of the local productive structure in a context of unstable reality. The agglomeration of software companies in this region is certainly the most recent variant of the local economy. Thus, with the objective to characterize the space and productive dynamics existing in the software industry of Joinville, the present work was constructed rested upon the conceptual framework of innovation systems. It was evidenced, therefore, the existence of a complex set of organizations and institutions that form an incomplete system of innovation, whose production lean on incremental innovations, with elevated participation of the customers. By the optics of the sales, the system specialized in the production of softwares package, although there exists a larger number of firms exploring the softwares services market. Without a relevant research organizations in this system, the interactions with the universities are restrict to the man power formation. Thus, it was verified that the studied system appears spontaneously and endogenously, by the way of the diversification of its local productive structure, what constitutes an attribute of a “milieu innovateur”.