INNOVATION DEFINITION IN SCOPE OF BRAZILIAN RESEARCH: A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

ABSTRACT

Considering the need of the Brazilian Public Universities to locate and position themselves in relation to the political and economic investments that have been received to become the locus of production of Innovation, it is the objective to investigate, in the scope of Brazilian scientific research, which understandings, or what definitions of Innovation have been adopted or constructed in different areas of knowledge, highlighting the field of Information Science (IS). Thus, the objectives of the research are: to analyze the definitions of Innovation presented in Brazilian theses and dissertations, identifying the predominance of Innovation conceptions in these researches. For this, a descriptive and exploratory research was developed, using textual mining methods and semantic analysis through KhCoder software, in the texts of Brazilian theses and dissertations on the subject. The data is essentially national, using the database of the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Based on the collected data, we sought to reflect on the multidisciplinary perspectives of Innovation presented in scientific research that could be assumed by Public Universities to better understand their vocation for Innovation. With the results obtained, it was possible to identify "Technological Innovation" as the most predominant conception in Brazilian research, as well as the definition of Innovation tending to the business aspect and its underlying definitions, which corresponds to the high centrality of the Administration's knowledge area in the speeches of Innovation.

KEYWORDS:
Innovation; Brazilian research; University