Pelayo Munhoz Olea

O presente artigo possui como caso o Projeto Mão Amiga, entidade sem fins
lucrativos, coordenada por uma equipe de voluntários. O artigo possui o objetivo de analisar se o referido projeto é uma inovação social, para isso, fez uso da abordagem qualitativa, de natureza exploratória e estratégia de estudo de caso. Como técnica de coleta de dados utilizou-se a entrevista com roteiro semiestruturado com questões abertas. Para a análise dos dados foi utilizada a análise de conteúdo, a partir do Software NVivo®. Com dados da análise percebe-se que dentre as características apresentadas pelo projeto, como a formação social dos indivíduos, a preocupação com a resolução de problemas sociais a partir de ações voluntárias, conclui-se que o projeto estudado, de acordo com os autores apresentados, atende às características de uma inovação social.

Considering the socio-economic reality of Brazil and from the relevance of the issues related to entrepreneurship and organizational innovation in the country, the importance of sustainability for the organizations could become a solution for the integration of entrepreneurship with innovation. The objective of this research is to highlight the relevance of sustainability for organizations as a way to trigger the integration of entrepreneurship toward innovation in the Brazilian context. Various exploratory and descriptive researches on the dynamics of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability in the main organizations of the Serra Gaúcha (RS), Brazil were carried out through the Multidisciplinary Research Group on Innovation and Competitiveness, in partnership with a research Nucleus on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability. The main results indicate that the key sectors of this Brazilian regional economy present less “innovation intensity,” which are mainly characterized by internal organizational activities of innovation, preventing them to become “regional systems of innovation,” and which presupposes the lack of sustainability. Those limitations can be characterized as “innovation ghettos.” In that logic, the researchers have also demonstrated the presence of “ghettos of sustainability, ghettos of innovation, and therefore, ghettos of sustainability and innovation” in the sectors of this Brazilian regional economy, but in differentiated and restricted perspectives.

This paper addresses the issue of social capital analysis for collaborative networks. The objective of the research project is to understand how collaborative networks can be influenced considering the perspective of social capital. Initially, the authors identified and analyzed relevant works that were developed in the collaborative network field, focusing on the social capital approach. Therefore, nineteen papers have been selected from well-known journals basically extracted from the Business Source Premier Database. Thereafter, a tool for analyzing those papers has been developed. During evaluation, the authors considered twenty six aspects that can be divided into two major themes: the methodological and characterization approach and the theory of social capital and collaborative networks. As a result of this work, we conclude that a great variety of techniques to collect information exists, but that the difficulty of measuring social capital continues.