Implementação do fomento público em projetos de inovação aberta

Abstract

Open innovation projects aim to develop new products, services, or processes, employing internal and external knowledge of organizations collaboratively, an essential phenomenon for competitiveness in the current market. The Legal Framework for Innovation was established in 2016 to regulate the innovation sector, enable and debureaucratize access to funding. Thus, public funding became partly responsible for ensuring the financial capacity of organizations, sharing the risk with them and being incremental in the success of these projects. However, the global health crisis caused by Covid-19 and the new Public Procurement Law for Public Contracts, currently under implementation, were external vectors that impacted investment and production in the Innovation Sector. To establish: “How are external funding resources implemented in the development phases of open innovation projects?”, the research aimed to systematize the application of public funding in each phase of the development of open innovation projects in organizations in the State of São Paulo. Using a qualitative method, the field research mapped forty public funding opportunities for open innovation projects of the National Innovation System, in the Federal Government, and the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation, in the Government of São Paulo. In a second stage, it systematized how external funding resources were applied in the development phases of an open innovation project in three organizations in the State of São Paulo, through process-based interviews. As a theoretical contribution, it systematized the flow of funding for open innovation projects of the National Innovation System and, as a practical contribution, proposed a “Public Funding Guide for Open Innovation Projects”.