Stimulating the effort: the internal innovative dynamics of three companies promoted by BNDES in Prosoft

Abstract

This study seeks to analyze the implications of the relationship between the State and companies in the internal innovative dynamics of the companies that benefited from public innovation policies. Its empirical context is the answer of three companies of the Software and Information Technology Service Industry (S&ITS) to the promotion of the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Social (BNDES) in the Programa para o Desenvolvimento da Indústria Nacional de Software e Serviços de Tecnologia da Informação (Prosoft): TOTVS, Linx e Sinqia. It was supposed that the different responses of the companies result from the different degrees of innovation of their strategic planning, which was evaluated based on the evolutionary theory of the firm and the new-weberian theory of the firm. The results confirm the hypothesis, since, although the three companies have been presented with a positive variation of their internal innovative dynamics after the promotion of the BNDES, the more innovative the strategic planning of the company the greater this positive variation.

JEL: O00.

Keywords
Innovation Studies; State; Companies; BNDES; S&ITS industry