The Innovation Research Center (NITEC) is the research group on Innovation and Management of Technology of the UFRGS.
The Project “Paths of Innovation in Services” (Notice FAPERGS 05/2019) is the third in a series of profound research efforts accomplished by the Innovation Research Center (NITEC) to outline the paths of innovation in the different sectors of the economy. In particular, the objective of this project is to know in detail the innovative behaviorRead more about SUMMARY PROJECT “SERVICE INNOVATION”[…]
Innovative innovation indicators seek innovative business performance based on R & D investments, quantity of new products launched and quantity of patents. This ends up restricting the capture of innovation to sectors of the high-tech industry, labeling the low-tech sectors as non-innovators. As a technological base of the low-tech industry is mature, an innovation throughRead more about INNOVATION IN COMPANIES OF LOW TECHNOLOGICAL INTENSITY SECTORS[…]
The project aims to reapply the model of innovation capabilities in the sample of companies available in the bank data from the project “Paths of innovation in the brazilian indutry” and to evaluate the evolution of its innovation capacities over the last four years (2014-2018) . In this way, it will be possible not onlyRead more about The Evolution of Innovation Capabilities in Industrial Business[…]
In the State of Rio Grande do Sul, agribusiness plays a key role. All activities related to this sector, from the producer to the industry, generate approximately 45% of the economic wealth produced in the State. However, Brazil still figures as a country that focuses its activities on the production and sale of commodities andRead more about The Paths of Innovation of Brazilian Agribusiness[…]
The project is a partnership between the institutions FURG, UFRJ, UFRGS, UNICAMP, UFF and FIPERJ, funded by FUNBIO. It is divided in three steps: (i) Marine and Offshore Environments’ Ecological Characteristics, (ii) Identification and Analysis of Fish Populations, (iii) Social Economy of the Fishing Process. NITEC works on the third step of the project (SocialRead more about Bonito: ecology and socio economy of Katsuwonus Pelamis fishing in the Rio de Janeiro coast for stock assessment, sustainable management and use in school feeding[…]