Políticas públicas para o desenvolvimento associado com a inovação: Uma análise da formulação e de narrativas de atores envolvidos na implementação do Programa Agentes Locais de Inovação – ALI – em Campina Grande

Abstract

In this dissertation we have as general subject area the Public Policies to promote development associated with innovation. Our main objective is analizing the case of the Local Agents for Innovation Program (LAIP) in Campina Grande - Paraiba. As theoretical perspective we combine the debate on Development Public Policies focusing those that associate the entrepreneurs training for management and innovation as strategy to promote local development. The methodology of our research consists of an analysis of documents in which are formalized the objectives and modus operandi of the ALI, as well as conducting structured interviews with a non random sample of actors involved ih that Project implementation, selected by accessibility, following a stratification criterion for economic activity sector in the cited city. As the main conclusions we point out: (1) Among the main conclusions, we highlight the following: (1) the ALI has a proactive character, towards the prospection of companies in potential need of assistance situation, which is a major role of govenamental and quasi governamental agencies involved with MSEs than the noted earlier, when it was expected that the micro / medium entrepreneurs turned to SEBRAE, requesting assistance to invest in their potential for survival and expansion. With the ALI, many companies were met by SEBRAE, receiving consulting, training, diagnosis, innovation plans as a result of a prospective and active action of the institution; (2) Although the implemented actions are not necessarily of innovation, in the strictest sense, or that the implementation of the ALI does not generate development directly, it can be interpreted that it is potentially favorable to development, to the extent that it represents the constitution of SMEs a concern, a targeted look, which could unfold in medium and long term in the delineation of a scenario of regional economic growth and maintenance of jobs generated, which implies improving the quality of life of the individuals who are abosrbed by those companies.