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Pages 241-272 (April - June 2014)
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Vol. 11. Issue 2.
Pages 241-272 (April - June 2014)
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Factors for Selecting Partners in Innovation Projects – Evidences from Alliances in the Brazilian Petrochemical Leader
Fatores de Seleção de Parceiros em Projetos de Inovação – Evidências em Alianças do Líder Petroquímico Brasileiro
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Doutor em Administração pela Universidade de São Paulo – USP, Professor da Universidade Nove de Julho – UNINOVE, (Brasil)
Roberto Sbragia
Doutor em Administração pela Universidade de São Paulo – USP, Professor da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo – FEA/USP, (Brasil)
Isak Kruglianskas
Doutor em Administração pela Universidade de São Paulo – USP, Professor da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo – FEA/USP, (Brasil)
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ABSTRACT

Due to the limitation of resources, the need to foster the developments and the lack of some competencies internally, companies are forced to cooperate with external agents, like other companies and universities, as suggested by the Open Innovation paradigm. Although there are lots of studies dealing with partner selection factors in alliances in the firm level, few studies are devoted to understand the specific demands of the task, in the project level, considered it the theoretical gap to be addressed in this study. The paper analyzes the partner selection factors in bilateral alliances projects, accordingly to the type of the partner and the type of innovation project. The data come from the case study in one Brazilian petrochemical company, analyzing in-depth 20 alliances projects with different partners – competitors, customers, suppliers, universities; and embodying different innovativeness degree - incremental innovation, platforms, breakthrough and basic science. Founded on the resources based view background, it was possible to identify the more prevalent selecting factors and alliances characteristics depending on the partner type and project type. The theoretical background jointly with the qualitative evidences enabled the building of theoretical propositions to be tested in future quantitative researches.

Key words:
Innovation management
Technological alliances
Partner selection
RESUMO

Em função da limitação de recursos, necessidade de aceleração dos desenvolvimentos e a falta de algumas competências internamente, as empresas são levadas a cooperarem com agentes externos, como outras empresas e universidades, como sugere o paradigma da Inovação Aberta. Apesar da existência de muitos estudos tratando dos fatores de seleção de parceiros em alianças no nível da empresa, poucos estudos se dedicaram a entender as demandas específicas da tarefa, em nível de projeto, considerada a lacuna teórica a ser endereçada nesse estudo. O artigo aborda a análise dos fatores de seleção de parceiros em projetos de alianças bilaterais, dependendo do tipo de parceiro e do tipo de projeto de inovação. Os dados derivam do estudo de caso de uma empresa petroquímica brasileira, por meio da análise em profundidade de 20 projetos de alianças com diferentes parceiros – concorrentes, clientes, fornecedores, universidades e incorporando diferentes graus de inovação – inovação incremental, plataforma, radical e investigação de ciência básica. Baseado na Visão baseada em recursos (VBR), foi possível identificar os fatores de seleção de parceiros mais prevalecentes e as características das alianças, dependendo do tipo de parceiro e tipo de projeto. A base teórica investigada, em conjunto com as evidências qualitativas encontradas, permitiram a construção de um conjunto de proposições teóricas passíveis de testes em estudos quantitativos futuros..

Palavras-chave:
Gestão da inovação
Alianças tecnológicas
Seleção de parceiros
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