We start this editorial by celebrating RAI's classification as B1 on the 2015 Qualis List. Our goal is to improve even more its performance in order to be ranked as Latin America's main innovation journal. To achieve this purpose we present the 2017 N2, with 8 articles.
The first two papers deal with innovation in specific sectors. Alex da Silva Alves, Antonio José Junqueira Botelho and Luciano Mendes wrote “An exploratory assessment of the gaps for health innovation in Brazil: challenges and a proposed research agenda”; and Loise Baginski, Claudio Pitassi and Jose Geraldo Pereira Barbosa are the authors of “Technological capability in the Brazilian naval industry: a metric for offshore support vessels”. Still focusing on different sectors, but looking at the Regional System, in “Analysis of determinants for open innovation implementation in regional innovation systems”, Lindomar Subtil de Oliveira, Márcia Elisa Soares Echeveste, Marcelo Nogueira Cortimiglia and César Giovani Colini Gonçalves examine the relationship of open innovation with the regional systems of innovation.
Other two articles discuss innovation and entrepreneurship: “Fostering and limiting factors of innovation in micro and small enterprises”, by Tiago Bomfim Claudino, Sandra Maria dos Santos, Augusto Cézar de Aquino Cabral and Maria Naiula Monteiro Pessoa, and “Motivations, business planning, and risk management: Entrepreneurship among university students”, by Aleciane da Silva Moreira Ferreira, Elisabeth Loiola and Sônia Maria Guedes Gondim.
Paulo Figueiredo and Elizabeth Loiola, in “The impact of project introduction heuristics on research and development performance”, approach the interesting topic of heuristics, which is little explored and deserves more research. Finally, radical and disruptive innovation is the subject of two articles: “Disruptive innovation in low-income contexts: Challenges and state-of-the-art of national research in marketing”, by Vitor Koki da Costa Nogami and Andres Rodriguez Veloso; and “Characterization of the patents deposits from public research institutes of Brazil from 2004 to 2013”, by the authors Eduardo De-Carli, Andréa Paula Segatto, Fernanda Salvador Alves and Fábio Massashi Kuribara.