Innovation and public incentives: a research about the maturity degree in brazilian companies

Abstract

The present article aims to identify the influence of public incentives in innovation in the maturity degree of Brazilian companies. Thus, the study starts at the understanding of the innovation conceptive dimension over the Brazilian innovation system and interaction between university, company and government. Accordingly, it was performed a multi-method study with 43 companies attended by the project Pró-Inova/Nagi (2013), which promotes the innovation development in companies established in Federative Brazilian States. The obtained results provide reflections about the influence of public investments in innovation, by predictive qualitative variables associated to quantitative empiric test, explains which variables are significant in the maturity variation degree in companies’ innovation