Relational capabilitya study of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

Resumo

The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) plays an important role in Research and Development (R&D) for generating innovations. Most innovations are generated through R&D alliances with external partners, stimulating relational capability (RC), that is, a construct of strategic management of alliances with propositions for procedures that have not yet been empirically verified. In this context, we investigated how relational capability processes contribute to generating innovations. We conducted qualitative research using a case study based on interviews, document analysis, and observation. Three strategic R&D alliances involving EMBRAPA and external partners constituted the analysis corpus. The main contribution to knowledge advancement is a multidimensional fraProgmework for generating innovations from strategic R&D alliances, based on the empirical evidence of processes of EMBRAPA relational capability and its external partners. This new framework sheds light on how a public research enterprise absorbs knowledge and uncovers the processes of institutionalization and relational capability spillover.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2020

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.1590/0034-761220190329

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/82213

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Tecnologia

Palavras-chave

agricultural innovationR&D alliancesrelational capabilityEMBRAPA.innovación agrícolaalianzas de I Dcapacidad relacionalinovação agrícolaalianças de P&Dcapacidade relacional