Descriptive elements of the R&D projects |
Project A (Imidazolinone tolerant soy) |
Project B (Co-inoculation) |
Project C (Carbon-neutral meat) |
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Responsible unit | Embrapa Soja | Embrapa Soja | Embrapa Gado de Corte |
Project goal | To indicate new soy cultivars with the potential to maintain annual genetic gains in productivity. | To establish innovative lines of research, both basic and applied, with nitrogen-fixing bacteria and promoters of the growth of plants. | To validate the Carbon-Neutral Meat (CNM) Protocol in different regions of Brazil for the implementation of the concept of the CNM brand. |
Duration of project | Five years | Four years | Forecast for three years |
Main internal partners | Embrapa West Agriculture, Amapá, Temperate Climate, Mid North, Tabuleiros Costeiros, Rondônia, Roraima and others. | Embrapa West Agriculture, Tabuleiros Costeiros and Cerrados. | Embrapa Corn and Sorghum, Embrapa Southeast Farming, Embrapa Milk Cattle, Embrapa East Amazon, Embrapa Fish Aquaculture and others. |
Main external partners | Basf, Meridional Foundation, Cerrados Foundation, West Bahia R&D Support Foundation and others. | Total Biotecnologia, Meridional Foundation, Londrina State University and the Federal University of Paraná. | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Federal University of Goiás, meat lockers and certification agency. |
Resulting innovations | Soy cultivars tolerant to Imidazolinone herbicide. | AzoTotal Max Product. | CNM brand. |
Patents and registration of cultivars | Cultivars BRS 397 CV, BRS 8482 CV and BRS 8082 CV |
Registration of AzoTotal Max product. | National Industrial Property Institute (Inpi) under processes no. 907078982, 907079156 and 907079270. |
Category 1 - most relevant antecedents |
Project phases | Category 2 - central dynamic of AC | Category 3 - structural facilitators |
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• Behavior of company professionals when seeking alternatives and solutions. • Previous systematized knowledge and experiences (e.g., Agropensa). • Technical and scientific training and experience of professionals. • Relationship between the company’s internal units formed in previous projects. • Relationships with institutional partners and companies formed in previous projects. • Researchers’ personal relationships with institutions and national and international networks. |
Initial scoping | • Acquisition of external knowledge through participation in R&D networks, projects associated with third parties, technical missions, talks and meetings with the production sector, farmers, technicians and industry. • Seeking and selecting internal knowledge in the company and in routines of reviewing projects and debates between different areas of the company. • Individual attitudes associated with external knowledge acquisition, in which individuals are the protagonists, as in searches of databases, technical meetings, and attending conferences and courses. |
• Condition of public company impacts the players in the field, stimulating cooperation, partnerships and alliances. • Organizational culture of Embrapa: valuing the experience and knowledge of professionals. • Availability of information on projects already undertaken in Embrapa’s system. • Stimulus for the ongoing training and development of researchers and technicians. • Embrapa’s internal communication policy: encouraging sharing among areas and professionals. • Policy of participating in research decisions, encouraging researchers to assume responsibility. |
Project specification | • Seeking and selecting internal knowledge in the company archives and in routines of reviewing projects and debates between different areas of the company. | ||
Detailed planning | • Adaption and classification of the proposals and goals of new projects to the effective conditions of the company and its partners, and to the norms and limits of action. • Interpretation and collective classification of the knowledge and processes to be developed on field trips (field days). • Review of routines for new projects (including actions with partners). • Preliminary negotiations regarding industrial property. |
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Implementation | • Implementation of projects with the participation of respective partners from inter- and intra-organizational alliances. • New knowledge acquisition cycles stemming from partners’ conditions and demands. |
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Evaluation | • Analysis, evaluation and approval of the main elements of the planning, involving areas of the company that will work on projects, which implies the diffusion and collective interpretation of new knowledge. • Internal diffusion for analyzing new knowledge. • Adaptation of new knowledge to existing knowledge. |
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Completion | • Drafting reports, using tools to assess the results of projects or their commercial application, using procedures to register brands or patents, identifying competencies to be exploited etc. • Application of the results of R&D projects. |
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Post-project | • Experimental field trips to present the results of the projects, specific talks with clients and users, preparing and diffusing advertising, attending conferences and other initiatives to divulge results. • As underlying effects of these initiatives, Embrapa’s professionals receive feedback at these events, ongoing demands, and suggestions for new projects etc. • Reports with analysis of the impacts of applying the results of the projects. |