A atuação de incubadoras tecnológicas no desenvolvimento das capacidades de empresas incubadas: um estudo na região do Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba

Abstract

In competitive scenarios, small enterprises face greater difficulties to prosper and knowledge becomes preponderant asset in the business activity. Available and easily accessible information, strategy, technology, means of production and methodologies do not guarantee value creation and competitive advantage. The survival of enterprises is centered on shaping themselves and sensing the environment, seizing the opportunities, and reconfiguring their tangible and intangible resources. Thus, the support offered by incubators of technological base companies can help the strengthening and stimulation of the creation of competitive advantages on small enterprises and startups. This work aimed to analyses the hole of enterprise incubators at the regions of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba in creating competitive advantage and outcomes through the diverse resources and support offered by the perspective of Dynamic Capabilities, specifically observing the hierarchy of the dynamic capabilities proposed by Wang and Ahmed (2007), focused on the level of second-order capabilities aimed at adaptation, absorption and innovation, and the analysis of the practices of organizational ambidexterity. In order to do so, a qualitative research was carried out, of the descriptive type with the accomplishment of multiple case studies, being the researched public composed of three technology-based incubators and twenty-three incubated enterprises. The results gathered allow the description of an overview of the region and indicate a resemblance in the activities of support offered, in the structures available and in the profile of companies attended, and the three incubators, with some variations, contribute to a favorable context for the emergence of the dynamic capacities of Adaptation, Absorption and Innovation, especially through the combined resources in the form of an innovation environment, in the monitoring / mentoring and promotion of the network of contacts. The different levels of adoption of the CERNE certification method, developed by ANPROTEC and SEBRAE, a low use of the laboratory capacity available to the incubated ones and the almost non-existence of entrepreneurial women linked to the innovation processes were also identified.

KEY-WORDS: Dynamic Capabilities, Capacity Hierarchy, Enterprise Incubator, CERNE Method.