Innovation & Management Review: Volume 16 Issue 4 , Open Access

Alternatives for airport management in Brazil: The case of the innovative management model of the Zona da Mata regional airport

Vitor Augusto Martins da Costa, Danielle Carvalho Ribeiro

This paper aims to answer the following question: Is PPP a financially viable alternative for the management of regional airports in Brazil?

Innovative performance of Brazilian public higher educational institutions: Analysis of the remuneration of research groups and companies

Thais Assis de Souza, Luiz Guilherme Rodrigues Antunes, Angélica da Silva Azevedo, Giulia Oliveira Angélico, Andre Luiz Zambalde

The purpose of this paper is to identify the compensation between research groups and companies that contribute the most for the innovative performance of Brazilian public higher…

Crowdsourcing as production model that uses collective intelligence, the collaborative culture and the formation of communities

Luciano Augusto Toledo, Felix Hugo Aguero Diaz Leon

It has been verified that companies are using crowdsourcing to carry out tasks related with the market, concentrating on three main areas: product development, advertising and…

Innovation in health-care companies: a strategy to increase customer service productivity

Claudio Miraldo, Sonia Francisca Monken, Lara Motta, Ana Freitas Ribeiro

To promote access to their services, health-care companies provide various communication channels to their customers (beneficiaries) to enable the receipt of requests, such as…

Analysis of the process of technology transfer in public research institutions: The Embrapa agrobiology case

Sheila Serafim Da Silva, Paulo Roberto Feldmann, Renata Giovinazzo Spers, Martha Delphino Bambini

Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), owned by the Brazilian Government, is one of the most efficient agencies…

An assessment of the sustainability of Living Labs in Kenya

Mary Auma Ondiek, Christopher Moturi

There has been a high rate of failure among the Living Labs in Kenya resulting in the expected outcomes not fully realized. This paper aims to assess the sustainability of Living…

Eco-design requirements in heavyweight vehicle development – a case study of the impact of the Euro 5 emissions standard on the Brazilian industry

Gabriela Scur, Adriana Marotti de Mello, Lilian Schreiner, Fernando José das Neves

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how technology-forcing regulations affect the product development process in the supply chain of heavyweight vehicles.