A pesquisa em inovação: mapeando os domínios da produção cientifica brasileira

Abstract

Innovation has been a highly developed theme due to its transversality characteristic and because it is an element of socioeconomic and cultural importance for the nations. It can be studied in its different aspects due to its scope and interaction with the various areas of research. Therefore, this research sought to characterize the Brazilian scientific production on innovation based on the articles indexed by the Scopus database within the period of 2002-2016. For this purpose, the research sought to identify, describe and compare the growth of Brazilian scientific production, both total and on innovation, in relation to the world's scientific production; identify the journals that disseminated the publications on innovation and Brazil's participation in these titles, especially those with greater impact; identify the thematic trends of publications on innovation and compare them with the areas of knowledge identified in the data set. Regarding the methodological profile, this research is a quantitative, exploratory and descriptive study. It is also a bibliometric study, whose main foundation is information extracted from the recovered scientific production, utilized as a unit of measure for the set of analyses presented in this thesis. The metric studies of scientific production have the ability to explore different aspects in the scientific field, and may reveal trends of development in certain areas. Through the contribution of the tools and theories of such studies, especially bibliometric ones, it was possible to characterize the Brazilian scientific production on innovation, which is represented mainly by two groups of subjects. The first group is focused on the innovation of products, processes, services and organizatios, according to the concepts described in the Oslo Manual. As a predominant group in all of the analyzed periods, this group presents the search for the development and maturation of the area and is characterized as the main group in the theme. The second group mainly represents research in the medical and health areas with topics that emerge promisingly. From the behavior of the second group, it was possible to perceive that the subject subgroups exhibit a seasonal behavior. Such subgroups emerge, may develop and consolidate as a group, or disappear, while the main subject groups are more perennial. Finally, the dataset on the areas allows us to infer that Brazil is aligned with the world's trends due to the similarity of subjects observed from the analyses performed.