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R&D Strategic Alliances in Embrapa and the Generation of Agricultural Innovations

Abstract

With population growth and increasing life expectancy, innovations are the main means of optimizing agricultural production. From now on, the formation of alliances can be an alternative to strengthen the pro-innovation resource base of the organizations involved in these challenges. Thus, the objective was to understand how R&D strategic alliances are structured to promote agricultural innovations. Three alliances, involving the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and partners, constituted the research analysis unit. On the structuring and formalization of alliances analyzed, it was possible to conclude that they are initially dimensioned considering the nature of the actors involved; however, other dimensions also altered the levels of structuring and formalization, including the scope, term and nature of the activities practiced in the alliances..

Keywords:
Strategic alliances; R&D; Embrapa; Agricultural innovations

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