“Innovation Ecosystems and Knowledge Based Urban Development – An analysis of the Brazilian system”

Definitely innovation in all areas, as well as stimulating innovative entrepreneurship, is a must for Brazil. Currently, only 2% of the entrepreneurship effort in the country can be considered innovative, one of the lowest rates in the world. The seminar aims to present some results of a technical study targeted to the Brazilian context. The study was conducted in the field, in Silicon Valley and Bay Area, based on the University of California, Berkeley, and at the same time in three Brazilian cities: Curitiba, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. With this study, we identified the main factors that distinguish the Silicon Valley from other parts of the world for the production and innovation. We surveyed the current Brazilian practices from experts, entrepreneurs, scholars, government and non-government organizations. Our study lists some specific recommendations in order to review the present Brazilian public policies. The recommendations aim at fostering a culture for innovation and at building an innovation ecosystem in Brazil. We will explore the liaisons between triple-helix stakeholders and innovation practices.

Professor Luiz Márcio Spinosa, Dr. ès Sci. Innovation Ecosystems at  Pontifical Catholic University of Parana. Polytechnic School (Full Professor). Postgraduate Program in Urban Management (Researcher). International MBA in Innovation Management (Coordinator)

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"Fostering the Innovation in Brazil – An Industry Project"

Brazilian industry has launched a country wide initiative aiming to deploy 26 innovation institutes to provide applied research services. This initiative is head by SENAI (Professional Training Institution) and relies on two international collaboration with Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) and Industrial Performance Center(IPC) from MIT (United States). The former helps SENAI with business strategy & planning matters, the latter is essentially focused on innovation-related issues. IPC’s work, which is the basis of this talk, involves main actors related with innovation in Brazil, which are basically the government (in its several instances and agencies), the academy, and the industry itself. Triple Helix concerns, research framework  and main challenges are to be presented and discussed, briefly.