The Brazilian Journal of Innovation (RBI) was created by Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP) in 2002, in a context in which innovation was becoming increasingly relevant to public policies, business strategies, and Brazilian academic research. Its creation responded to the absence in Brazil of a multidisciplinary scientific journal specifically devoted to innovation studies and capable of bringing together contributions from economics, management, sociology, political science, history, law, and public policy.

Before RBI, there were already initiatives aimed at disseminating intellectual production in science, technology, and innovation, such as Revista Brasileira de Tecnologia, linked to CNPq, and the journal Parcerias Estratégicas, published by CGEE. However, none of them simultaneously combined a multidisciplinary academic profile, peer review under a double-blind review system, and an editorial line devoted to theoretical, applied, methodological, and historical research on innovation.

Since its creation, RBI has been conceived as a scientific journal open to the publication of original articles in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Its editorial scope has covered topics such as economics of technology, economics and sociology of innovation, technology management, science, technology and innovation policies, technological and organizational change, and the history of science and technology. The original proposal also included sections intended to recover reference texts, preserve institutional memory, and disseminate book reviews and publications relevant to the field.

The journal was initially edited by FINEP itself and, from 2006 onward, began to be managed by partner institutions. In 2008, editorial responsibility was transferred to Universidade Estadual de Campinas, initially through the Department of Science and Technology Policy of the Institute of Geosciences (DPCT/IG/Unicamp) and, from 2026 onward, through the Institute of Economics of the same university (IE/Unicamp). Until 2019, RBI received support from FINEP through agreements involving Funcamp's internal bodies. This institutional arrangement contributed to consolidating RBI as a leading Brazilian journal in innovation studies and to strengthening the debate on science, technology, and innovation.

Already in its early years, the journal achieved significant national and international circulation. By 2007, RBI had received more than 150 article submissions since its creation, distributed printed copies to institutions in every Brazilian state and to researchers in approximately twenty countries, and maintained a network of around 350 reviewers affiliated with more than 80 teaching and research institutions in Brazil and abroad. These figures demonstrate the journal's rapid expansion and its ability to articulate a national academic community around innovation studies.

RBI's recent history has been marked by digitalization and the adoption of international editorial standards. In 2017, the journal began to be hosted on UNICAMP's Portal of Electronic Scientific Journals, enabling DOI assignment to published texts, including previous issues, and increasing their traceability and visibility. The last printed issue was volume 14, number 2, published in 2016. Since then, the journal has consolidated its exclusively electronic publication and, in 2020, adopted continuous publication and the e-location system.

Currently, RBI is a multidisciplinary, electronic, open-access journal devoted to innovation studies. It publishes original articles in Portuguese, English, and Spanish using double-blind peer review. Its mission is to contribute to the academic debate on innovation and to the understanding of its economic, social, organizational, and environmental impacts, as well as to public policymaking and the management of private organizations.

The Brazilian Journal of Innovation (RBI) is an Open Access journal, which means that all content is freely available at no cost to users or their institutions. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided that they comply with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license used by the journal. This definition of open access is consistent with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

RBI provides free access to its content in PDF (Portable Document Format), based on the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public promotes greater global democratization of knowledge.

RBI follows developments in Open Science principles and, accordingly, allows preprints to be submitted to the journal. It also recommends the use and sharing of information in research data repositories and asks authors to state whether they agree to one or more openness practices in peer review through the Open Science Compliance Form. This journal follows the Gold Open Access model.

RBI is committed to complying with good practices regarding ethical conduct consistent with scientific journal publishing. Preventing negligence is also a crucial responsibility of the editor and the editorial team: any form of unethical behavior, including plagiarism and data fraud in any instance, is rejected by RBI. Authors who submit articles to the journal declare that their content is original and guarantee that the work has not been published and is not under review by another journal. The journal follows COPE Good Practice and Guidance (Committee on Publication Ethics) and draws on the code of ethics of the American Educational Research Association, the Code of Good Scientific Practice Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), and the Council of Science Editors. To promote research integrity, transparency in manuscript evaluation, and stronger ethics in scientific publishing, all material published by RBI complies with SciELO's Guide to Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing.

The Brazilian Journal of Innovation (RBI) is a multidisciplinary journal focused on innovation studies. It aims to contribute to the academic debate on innovation and scientific and technological advances and their economic, social, organizational, and environmental impacts, contributing to the dissemination of new knowledge, public policymaking, and the management of private organizations. It welcomes submissions of original papers, whether theoretical or applied, resulting from high-impact scientific research in the field of science, technology, and innovation. It focuses on the fields of Economics, Management, Production Engineering, and History, in their respective subfields of Industrial Economics, Business Administration, Economics of Technology, and History of Science, and more specifically on the topics listed below:

• Economics of Innovation;

• Economics of Science and Technology;

• Industrial dynamics and production systems;

• Economics of knowledge – creation, diffusion, utilization;

• Learning and innovation processes;

• Technology transfer;

• Science, Technology and Innovation policies;

• Science, Technology, Innovation and R&D indicators;

• Innovation and sustainability;

• Competencies and capabilities of firms;

• Strategies and management of innovation and technology;

• R&D strategies and management;

• Innovation and entrepreneurship;

• Process and product development strategies;

• Technical and organizational changes;

• Innovation systems – national, regional, sectoral, technological;

• Innovation networks – R&D alliances, university-industry interactions, chains;

• Geography of innovation;

• Economic development and innovation;

• Innovation experiences in developing countries;

• Productivity studies (multisectoral and cross-country comparisons);

• Technical change modeling;

• Competitive dynamics and structural change;

• Sociology of Science and Innovation;

• History of Science and Technology.

RBI adopts a continuous publication system in order to follow international trends in scientific publishing and speed up the publication of approved articles. In practice, this means that once an approved article is ready and edited, it is published.

The Brazilian Journal of Innovation is included in the Diadorim (IBICT) Directory of Editorial Policies and maintains an archiving policy for its records in the PKP Preservation Network, LOCKSS, and the Brazilian Digital Preservation Network – Cariniana (IBICT).

RBI uses DOI in all publications.

• Scopus

• Web of Science - Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

• Redalyc

• SPELL - Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library

• Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

• DIADORIM - Directory of Open Access Policies for Brazilian Scientific Journals

• Livre! - Nuclear Knowledge Portal

• CAPES Journals Portal

• Journal title: Revista Brasileira de Inovação

• Abbreviated title: Rev. Bras. Inov.

• Published by: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Institute of Economics

• Periodicity: Annual

• Publication model: Continuous Publication (CP)

• Year the journal was created: 2002

• Journal website

In line with developments in Open Science, RBI recommends the use of SciELO Preprints and accepts submissions of articles previously deposited in preprint repositories without compromising their originality. Manuscripts originating from preprint repositories undergo peer review under a single-blind model, because the authorship is already known, and are reviewed by at least two ad hoc reviewers.

Evaluation is carried out under the double-blind review system. Reviewers for each submission are selected primarily on the basis of the editors' knowledge of research activities at different institutions and of relationships between individuals and groups in the academic community. This approach aims to avoid possible conflicts or incompatibilities that could compromise the evaluation.

RBI uses the Open Science Compliance Form and, within this framework, publishes in the final article the name or names of the editors responsible for the evaluation.

Articles submitted to RBI go through three stages of evaluation during the editorial process: 1. Format Check – carried out by the executive office; 2. Admission Evaluation – carried out by the editorial team (Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors); 3. Merit Evaluation – carried out by at least two anonymous reviewers. At RBI, the entire process is conducted through an online system.

1. Format Check:

This stage is carried out by the executive office, which checks whether the manuscript falls within the scope of the section to which it was submitted, complies with RBI's publication standards, and contains no identification of the authors in the body of the text.

2. Admission Evaluation:

It is carried out by the editorial team, which verifies the article's fit with RBI's thematic lines, its relevance, and its scientific contribution to the field.

3. Merit Evaluation:

At this stage, at least two reviewers analyze the following aspects:

• Relevance of the article topic to RBI areas of interest;

• Quality and originality of the article, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses;

• Adequacy of the theoretical framework and methodological approach;

• Contextualization within the state of the art of knowledge already established on the topic;

• Clarity of objectives and results;

• Contribution of the work to the debate on innovation studies.

The editorial decision is based on the merit evaluation and the reviewers' recommendations. If the reviews are divergent or insufficient, the editors may request additional evaluations from other reviewers, postponing the final decision until those reviews are completed.

If the editorial decision is “Approved,” the author is informed by the editorial office (or executive office), which sends the notification together with the reviews received. The article then proceeds to copyediting. If an article is “Rejected,” the author receives a communication from the editors explaining the reasons for rejection and including the reviewers' reports; the submission is then closed and archived in RBI's electronic system. If the editorial decision is “Revisions Required,” the author is notified of the requested changes and receives the reviewers' evaluations.

The author has 30 (thirty) days to submit the revised article to RBI, always through RBI's electronic system. After the revised version is submitted, the editors have 7 (seven) days to determine whether the manuscript meets the reviewers' requirements. The editors may also decide to send the revised version back to the reviewers for a new evaluation. Ideally, the revised manuscript should be sent to the same reviewers who evaluated the original version. However, the editors may request new evaluations from new reviewers whenever they consider it necessary or if the original reviewers are unavailable. The evaluation process ends only when the editors make the final editorial decision of “Approved” or “Rejected.”

It should be noted that the Editor-in-Chief has the authority to decide freely on the approval or rejection of articles. Submitted articles are considered confidential at every stage of the evaluation process. Article evaluation is guided exclusively by scientific merit.

Also in line with Open Science principles, RBI adopts an open-data policy. Accordingly, the journal reserves the right to consult authors about the data underlying published research. RBI also encourages authors to make this information available in public repositories and suggests the use of UNICAMP's Research Data Repository (REDU).

RBI provides free access to its content in PDF (Portable Document Format), based on the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public promotes greater global democratization of knowledge. No fees are charged for published texts or for submission, evaluation, review, distribution, or download. Publication is entirely free of charge. RBI articles are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY License.

Suspected ethical misconduct in scientific publishing is treated seriously by the journal. Errata and retractions are published whenever necessary, following the guidance contained in SciELO's guides. According to the Guide for the Publication of Erratum, errata are used to correct errors found in documents that have already been published, such as manuscript metadata: author name, DOI, affiliation, volume, periodicity, year, journal pagination, among others. Retractions, in turn, are prepared when ethical misconduct is identified and confirmed. They therefore involve a frank but confidential investigation conducted through dialogue among the Editor-in-Chief, the authors of the submission, and the institutions with which they are affiliated or from which they receive research funding. SciELO's Guide for the Publication of Retraction states that data fabrication or falsification and plagiarism are examples of serious misconduct requiring the publication of a retraction.

RBI's editorial team is attentive to these issues and uses electronic tools for detecting plagiarism (and self-plagiarism), based on the Turnitin platform. Manuscripts involving this type of conduct are automatically rejected. Following FAPESP's definitions, RBI understands plagiarism as the use of another person's ideas or verbal formulations, whether oral or written, without expressly and clearly giving due credit, in a manner that may reasonably create the impression that they are the author's own ideas or formulations. If plagiarism is suspected, it will be investigated with academic and ethical rigor in order to fully clarify the facts.

RBI guarantees the originality of the works it publishes and accepts submissions of articles previously presented at academic events, provided they are formatted according to the journal's guidelines and accompanied by a separate document stating the name, location, and year of the event. Articles derived from theses and dissertations are also accepted, provided authorship is maintained and the journal's guidelines are followed. RBI does not consider prior availability in conference proceedings, working papers, or preprint repositories to compromise the originality of the manuscript. Authors must, however, attest that the text is original, ensuring that it has not been published previously and is not being submitted simultaneously to another journal.

To avoid authorship conflicts, the journal requires a statement of author contributions for each article. This statement must be presented on the Title Page, and it is recommended that the following authorship or contribution roles be specified for each article:

1. Theoretical and conceptual foundations and problematization;

2. Data research and statistical analysis;

3. Preparation of figures and tables;

4. Drafting and writing of the text;

5. Selection of bibliographic references.

RBI's editors value ethics and good conduct in all of the journal's practices, including those carried out by editors, reviewers, and authors, who are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the guidance of COPE, FAPESP, and SciELO. If ethical issues related to articles arise, they will be investigated on the basis of the guidelines of these organizations.
 

• When preparing their submissions, authors should pay attention to the following:

1. List as authors only those who actively participated in discussing the results and also in reviewing and approving the final version of the article;

2. Correctly reference and cite all data and interpretations from other publications used in the article;

3. Report any existing conflict of interest;

4. Report each author’s contributions to the work;

5. Report the sources of funding for the work (if any);

6. Issue retractions and corrections of errors when necessary.

• When accepting an invitation to review, reviewers must commit to:

1. Decline the invitation if conflicts of interest exist;

2. Conduct the review themselves;

3. Accept the invitation only when they are available to perform the review and meet the stipulated deadline;

4. Maintain absolute confidentiality regarding the texts under review.

• Editors must be diligent in:

1. Ensure peer review with independence and impartiality;

2. Ensure double-blind peer review between reviewers and authors;

3. Evaluate and investigate cases in which misconduct or unethical behavior is observed;

4. Prevent financial interests from compromising publication ethics;

5. Ensure that plagiarism or fraudulent results do not occur in publication.

The Brazilian Journal of Innovation is committed to safeguarding the integrity of the literature and publishes Errata, Expressions of Concern, or Retraction Notices as appropriate to the circumstances and in accordance with the COPE Retraction Guidelines.

“Crossmark is a multi-publisher initiative from Crossref to provide a standard way for readers to locate the current version of a piece of content. By applying the Crossmark logo, the Publisher Name is committing to maintaining the content it publishes and alerting readers to changes if and when they occur. Clicking on the Crossmark logo will tell you the current status of a document and may also provide additional publication record information about the document.” (CROSSREF, 2020).

The retraction mechanism follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at COPE - Retraction Guidelines.

Conflicts of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial. Conflicts of interest may arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is a conflict of interest, even a potential one, the author(s) must disclose it.

The journal requires a conflict-of-interest statement for each article. This statement must be submitted on the Title Page. Any potential conflicts of interest must be declared in a short, clear text. If there is no conflict of interest, this must also be stated using the phrase “There are no conflicts of interest.”

For additional information on this topic, see: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest.

The Brazilian Journal of Innovation, in line with publications accredited by the UNICAMP Journals Portal, adheres to the highest standards of academic integrity, particularly with regard to preventing plagiarism, including self-plagiarism. In this context, the Brazilian Journal of Innovation uses the Turnitin platform, implemented at UNICAMP since November 2016, as its text-similarity detection service.

1. General Principles and Premises

The Brazilian Journal of Innovation (RBI) recognizes the ongoing advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools and AI-assisted technologies in supporting research and scientific writing. However, in order to safeguard scientific integrity, transparency, and public accountability for published knowledge — in strict compliance with the quality criteria of indexing databases and the guidelines of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) — RBI establishes the following policy for authors, reviewers, and editors.

2. Guidelines for Authors

2.1. AI Ineligibility for Authorship:

• AI tools may not be listed as authors or co-authors of manuscripts submitted to RBI.

• AI systems lack legal personality and ethical accountability and therefore cannot assume legal commitments regarding content, declare conflicts of interest, or grant copyright licenses (Creative Commons CC-BY);

• Full responsibility for the truthfulness, accuracy, originality, and ethical conduct of the text, data, analyses, and references rests exclusively with the human authors.

2.2. Permitted Use of AI Tools. The use of AI technologies is permitted as a supporting resource in instrumental stages, provided that it is formally disclosed:

• Support for grammar correction, stylistic improvement, or translation (e.g., Grammarly, DeepL);

• Assistance with the initial organization of ideas or the structuring of bibliographic searches;

• Support for computational analyses, data processing, and generation of programming scripts.

2.3. Mandatory Transparency and Disclosure. If the research, analysis, or writing process involved the assistance of Generative AI tools or AI-assisted technologies, authors must disclose their use at the time of submission:

• Presentation: The disclosure must appear on the Title Page (a supplementary document submitted separately to ensure double-blind review) and, after approval, must be incorporated at the end of the manuscript in the section “Declaration on the Use of Artificial Intelligence”;

• Required Content: The statement must specify the name of the tool/software, the version used, the developer, and the specific purpose of its use (e.g., “The authors used the [Name/Version] tool exclusively to assist with the stylistic improvement of the English version of the manuscript”);

• AI as the Object or Method of Research: If Machine Learning or AI algorithms are themselves the object/method of the empirical investigation, their parameters, databases, and technical specifications must be detailed in the methodology section of the article.

2.4. Citation Integrity and Plagiarism Prevention:

• Given the susceptibility of AI models to generating incorrect data or non-existent references (“hallucinations”), authors are responsible for manually verifying the existence, accuracy, and relevance of all citations and sources indicated in the work;

• Undisclosed use of text, ideas, or data generated by AI will be characterized as scientific misconduct and an ethical violation (equivalent to plagiarism).

3. Guidelines for Reviewers (Peer Reviewers)

Peer review at RBI is based on human critical rigor, confidentiality, and the double-blind review system.

• Prohibition on Submission to External Environments: Uploading, copying, or inserting excerpts or the entirety of manuscripts submitted to RBI into public or private AI platforms is strictly prohibited;

• Protection of Confidentiality and Intellectual Property: Entering unpublished data into AI tools violates the confidentiality of the editorial process and the copyright of submitters;

• Exclusively Human Review: The review report and its supporting rationale must be prepared exclusively by the human reviewer; the use of AI to draft critical reviews is prohibited.

4. Guidelines for the Editorial Team

• The final editorial decision (acceptance, revision, or rejection) is the exclusive responsibility of RBI's Editors and Editorial Board, and the use of automated AI tools to judge scientific merit is prohibited;

• The Editorial Office reserves the right to use institutional automated software for similarity checking (plagiarism detection) and for checking compliance with the journal’s formal standards.

5. Final Provisions
 

• This policy forms part of the ethics and good-practice standards of the Brazilian Journal of Innovation and is aligned with the technical requirements of journal indexing databases and COPE guidelines;

• In view of ongoing technological developments, RBI’s Editorial Team may periodically update this document to ensure continued adherence to international scientific publishing standards.

The editorial team of the Brazilian Journal of Innovation (RBI), as well as authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines. The SAGER guidelines provide guidance for reporting information on sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of findings. RBI also observes a gender-equity policy in the composition of its Editorial Board.

When an article or research project involves procedures with human participants or sensitive data subject to Brazil's General Data Protection Law (LGPD), authors must attach a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for validating the research.

RBI's Copyright Statement is aligned with the standards of excellence and good practice for open-access publications recommended by DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). Accordingly, when submitting an article to RBI, the author retains unrestricted copyright and all publication rights, while guaranteeing upon submission that the work has not been published and is not under review/evaluation by another journal. Once the article is approved, the author continues to hold unrestricted copyright and, at the same time, authorizes the Brazilian Journal of Innovation to publish and share the article with acknowledgement of authorship, in accordance with the Creative Commons CC-BY License, which states that this is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

Through the system, authors must complete the “Statement of Responsibility, Agreement with the Publication License and the Open Access License.” The author submitting the article will complete this statement on behalf of the other authors. We therefore recommend that all authors of the article read this document. The content of articles and reviews published in RBI is the sole and exclusive responsibility of their authors.

All content published by the Brazilian Journal of Innovation, except where otherwise specified, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY terms.

Authors of articles published by RBI retain the copyright to their works, licensing them under Creative Commons Attribution, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is correctly cited.

The journal encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided that the full citation to the version on the journal's website is included.

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• Renato Garcia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4448499039119632, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9739-1658, email:  rcgarcia@unicamp.br 

• Ana Cristina de Almeida Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Pernambuco/PE, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3262670232283121, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2641-5525, email:  anacf@ufpe.br 
• Ana Urraca Ruiz, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3295872770043382, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0158-5659, email: anaurracaruiz@gmail.com 
• Andres Niembro, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Bahía Blanca, Argentina. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1449-6361, email: andresniembro@gmail.com 
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• Victor Manoel Pelaez Alvarez, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná/ PR, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7929005597555969, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8626-1989, email: victor@ufpr.br 

• Abraham Benzaquen Sicsú, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Pernambuco/PE, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8106734394937176, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6636-6721, email: abrahamsicsu@gmail.com 
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• Ana Célia Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4821494129200374, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7070-6047, email: ancastro@ccje.ufrj.br 
• André Tosi Furtado, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8444233927942764, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6183-192X, email: furtado@ige.unicamp.br 
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• Carlos Frederico Leão Rocha, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8146112284072646, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-5861, email: fred@ie.ufrj.br 
• Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Elsevier, Oxford, United Kingdom. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2423378571102463, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0195-0986, email: brito@ifi.unicamp.br
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• Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/MG, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6966612518135380, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1591-875X, email: albuquer@cedeplar.ufmg.br 
• Eduardo Strachman, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Araraquara, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4070106176104935 , ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1546-330X, email: albuquer@cedeplar.ufmg.br 
• Gabriela Dutrénit, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Coyoacán, México. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1760-8544, email: gabrieladutrenit@gmail.com
• Gabriel Yoguel, Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (CIECTI), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), Los Polvorines, Argentina. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1916-418X, email: gyoguel@gmail.com 
• Giovanni Dosi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0126-9349, email: giovanni.dosi@sssup.it 
• Glenda Kruss, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), Cape Town, South Africa. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-785X, email: gkruss@hsrc.ac.za 
• Guilherme Ary Plonski, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3141577169664062, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8949-4363, email: plonski2@usp.br 
• Jair do Amaral Filho, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceará/CE, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4552942776697328, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0253-5688, email: amarelojair@gmail.com 
• João Alberto De Negri, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília, Distrito Federal/DF, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3129523246914511, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4280-1271, email: denegri@ipea.gov.br
• João Eduardo de Morais Pinto Furtado, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5955859475875219, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6688-0715, email: joao1960@gmail.com
• Jose Eduardo Cassiolato, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5155146467045247, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8377-6012, email: cassio@ie.ufrj.br 
• José Gabriel Porcile Meirelles, Universidad de la República de Uruguay (UDELAR), Montevideo, Uruguay. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8473435799107193, email: jose.porcile@cepal.org 
• José Maria F. J. Silveira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4984859173592703, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3680-875X, email: jmsilv@eco.unicamp.br 
• Keun Lee, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, South Korea. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0403-6348
• KJ Joseph, Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT), Kerala, India 
• Lea Maria Leme Strini Velho, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo/SP. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5786501018980066, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5965-7969, email: velho@ige.unicamp.br 
• Lia Hasenclever, Universidade Candido Mendes (UCAM), Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1501388573142596, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1384-6323, email: lia@ie.ufrj.br 
• Luciano Galvão Coutinho, Independent Researcher, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0334671847973228 | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6021-4076, email: lgcout@unicamp.br 
• Maria Beatriz Bonacelli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8033490313680312, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0795-7684, email: bia@ige.unicamp.br 
• Mario Cimoli, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), Santiago, Chile. Email: mario.cimoli@cepal.org 
• Mario Luiz Possas, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Araraquara, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8300756726664806, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7435-3250, email: mlpossas@terra.com.br 
• Nicholas S. Vonortas, George Washington University (GWU), Washington, United States. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6745-4926 
• Paulo Furquim de Azevedo, Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Insper), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7286319140069530, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2716-2574, email: paulofa1@insper.edu.br 
• Paulo Cesar Negreiros de Figueiredo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7298637758046404, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5857-8126, email: pnf@fgv.br 
• Ricardo Bielschowsky, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0334619142191688, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6427-3345, email: ricardo.bielschowsky@cepal.org 
• Roberto Vermulm, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4269118931310378, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-8539, email: rvermulm@uol.com.br 
• Rogério Gomes, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Araraquara, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3116704826530130, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8469-7076, email: rogerigomes@uol.com.br 
• Sérgio Luiz Monteiro Salles Filho, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6488894293305500, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8727-4500, email: sallesfi@ige.unicamp.br 
• Sérgio Kannebley Junior, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6943102738883264, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3389-3354, email: skj@usp.br 
• Sérgio Robles Reis de Queiroz, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8337842414613455, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6534-9022, email: squeiroz@ige.unicamp.br 
• Verónica Robert, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3069-6486, email: vrobert@gmail.com 

• Geisa Aguiari, Secretariat, secrbi@unicamp.br

• Priscila Maia dos Santos, Secretariat, secrbi@unicamp.br

• Amanda de Sousa, Secretariat, secrbi@unicamp.br

• Editora Cubo, Editorial Production, comercial@editoracubo.com.br

RBI accepts submissions of unpublished original articles, review articles, and book reviews written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. For articles in English, both American and British spelling are accepted, provided that the author chooses one and uses it consistently throughout the text without mixing the two. The recommended length is 8,000 words for articles and review articles and 1,000 words for book reviews. Works that have been submitted for publication or have already been published in another journal will not be accepted.

All submissions to RBI must be made through the Electronic System for Journal Publishing (SEER), hosted on UNICAMP's Portal of Electronic Scientific Journals (PPEC/Unicamp). Papers submitted by other means will not be accepted. Submission of original manuscripts to the journal implies authorization from the author(s) for publication, without payment of copyright and/or publication royalties.

Authors may not be added after an article has been submitted. Authors should therefore carefully check and correctly complete the submission metadata when submitting the article to RBI. When a work has been written by more than one author, the order of the authors' names is understood to reflect each author's contribution.

Editorial

Section dedicated to editorials written by the journal editors or by invited authors.

Original Articles

This section publishes unpublished and original articles that contribute to the advancement of theoretical and/or empirical knowledge in the journal's respective areas of interest. To submit an article to RBI, the Guidelines for Authors and the Submission Conditions must be observed. Original articles must be submitted via SEER, RBI's submission system, in the section called “Articles.” The editors recommend that submitted articles contain around 8,000 words.

Memory

The Memory section publishes works that seek to recover the history of scientific and technological institutions, especially Brazilian institutions. To submit a work to RBI, the Guidelines for Authors and the Submission Conditions must be observed. Works must be submitted via SEER, RBI's submission system, in the section called “Memory.” Publications in the Memory section are recommended to contain around 8,000 words.

Book Review

This section is dedicated to the publication of book reviews (critical analyses) of books published within the last three years, related to the topic of “innovation studies” and aligned with the journal's editorial scope. Reviews must be submitted via SEER, RBI's submission system, in the “Book Review” section, and are approved by the journal's editors. To submit a review to RBI, the Guidelines for Authors and the Submission Conditions must be observed. The editors recommend that reviews contain around 1,000 words.

Review Article

A review article is characterized by a broad, critical discussion, including the author's contributions to the debate, on a specific topic related to RBI's areas of interest. It must be submitted in the same way as a regular article, via SEER — RBI's submission system — in the “Review Article” section, and must follow the same rules as articles. To submit a review article to RBI, the Guidelines for Authors and the Submission Conditions must be observed. The editors recommend that review articles contain around 8,000 words.

The Brazilian Journal of Innovation considers as authors those who have actively participated in discussing the article's results and who have reviewed and approved its final version. With regard to authorship, RBI also follows the ICMJE definitions, whose main points are: substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; effective participation in data collection, analysis, and interpretation; participation in drafting the article or critically revising it; and final approval of the version to be published.

RBI requests the full names of authors as well as information on each author's affiliation. It also requests information on each author's contribution to the manuscript: RBI adopts a specification system based on CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), adapted to the practices of journals in the field of “innovation studies.”

This system summarizes author contributions as follows:

A. Theoretical and conceptual foundations and problematization;

B. Data research and statistical analysis;

C. Preparation of figures and tables;

D. Drafting and writing of the text;

E. Selection of bibliographic references.

Potential conflicts of interest: authors must report these and other items when submitting articles, providing the information in accordance with RBI's guidelines, which respect double-blind review (except for submissions of preprints accepted by the journal, which follow the single-blind model because authorship has already been disclosed) and issues related to ethics and good practices. After the article is submitted, changes to author contributions may only be made through a document submitted to RBI and signed by all authors of the article.

Under RBI's privacy policy, articles are sent to reviewers through the Electronic System for Journal Publishing (SEER) without identification of authorship, just as the identities of reviewers are not disclosed to authors (double-blind review). All information requested for user registration is used exclusively by RBI and solely for its purposes.

As a means of standardizing authorship, RBI's editors request the inclusion of the ORCID iD of all authors at the time of submission. An ORCID identifier can be obtained free of charge at: https://orcid.org/register. To use ORCID, you must follow the standards for displaying an ORCID iD and include the full URL, including “http://”, in your registration, immediately after the email address (for example: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097). See the registration tutorial here.

Works submitted to RBI must be prepared according to the following guidelines. Submissions that do not comply with the standards will be returned to the authors for adjustment before being sent for peer review.

Articles must be submitted WITHOUT any identification of authorship. Accordingly, at the time of submission, authors must correctly complete the information in their User Profile and in Step 3 (Submission Data) of the submission system (providing the full name, email, institution/affiliation, country, and biographical summary of each author) and remove from the article any passages or information that could facilitate identification of authorship.

Items that must be removed include acknowledgments, references to research projects, and self-citations. This information must be provided on the Title Page, which the author must submit as a supplementary document separate from the article. The information may be added to the article after approval, where applicable. The Title Page template adopted by the journal is available in the “Supplementary Documents” section of this information page.

Article Submission Format

• Word file (.doc or .docx extension);

• Font: Times New Roman 12;

• Page setup: A4;

• Right, top, and bottom margins: 2.5 cm;

• Left margin: 3 cm;

• Line spacing: 1.5;

• First-line indentation: 1.25 cm;

• Text alignment: justified;

• Page numbering: upper-right corner.

Explanatory footnotes must use Times New Roman 10 and be numbered with Arabic numerals. Abbreviated citations in the body of the text and in footnotes (author, year of publication and, where applicable, page) must appear in full in the bibliographic references at the end of the text. Foreign words must be italicized. Foreign proper names should not be italicized.

Mathematical formulas and equations must be presented in the normal sequence of the text. Within the paragraph, formulas and equations must be centered and identified by consecutive Arabic numerals in parentheses at the far right of the line, as in the following example:

Var [ε1 | x1, x2] = Var [ε2 | x1, x2] = 1     (1)

Links to electronic addresses must be active. The submission file must be provided in Word and PDF formats WITHOUT author identification in either version.

1.1 Guidelines for Submission of Articles, Memory Papers, and Review Articles

When submitting an article to RBI, authors must make sure that the work is aligned with the journal's thematic areas and scope. They must also check the submission's compliance with the items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the standards will be returned to the authors.

To submit articles to RBI, authors must ensure the article's originality and unpublished status; that is, the work may not have been published previously or be submitted simultaneously to another journal. It is important to note that this editorial policy does not consider publication of articles at academic events, as “working papers,” or as preprints to compromise the originality of the submitted article.

• Articles must be submitted WITHOUT any identification of authorship. Accordingly, at the time of submission, authors must correctly complete the information in their User Profile and in Step 3 (Submission Data) of the system (providing the full name, email, institution/affiliation, country, and biographical summary of all authors) and remove from the article any passages or information that could facilitate identification of authorship;

• Items that must be removed include acknowledgments, references to research projects, and self-citations. This information must be provided on the Title Page, which the author must submit as a supplementary document separate from the article. This information may be included in the article after approval, where applicable;

• Submit the Title Page and the Open Science Compliance Form as described under “Supplementary Documents”;

• As a means of standardizing authorship, authors are encouraged to include each author’s ORCID iD at the time of submission. An ORCID identifier can be obtained free of charge at: https://orcid.org/register;

• Submissions of unpublished original articles, review articles, and book reviews written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish are accepted;

• Articles submitted in Portuguese or Spanish must include the title, abstract (maximum 150 words), and keywords (three to five) in the original language of the article and in English;

• Articles must be prepared according to the standards established by the journal’s editors;

• Articles submitted to RBI are recommended to contain around 8,000 words, including abstracts, keywords, tables, bibliographic references, and other components of the text;

• The submission file must be provided in Word and PDF formats WITHOUT author identification.

1.2 Guidelines for Submission of Book Reviews

Reviews of books published within the last three years that relate to “innovation studies” and are therefore aligned with the journal's editorial scope are accepted. Book reviews must be submitted via SEER and are approved by the editorial team. Reviews are recommended to contain around 1,000 words.

A book review is expected to present a critical assessment of the book, not merely a summary. The review should therefore identify the book's principal strengths and its most important shortcomings in order to stimulate and guide potential readers. For further information on how to write a book review, the following texts are recommended:

1. http://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/book-reviews/;

2. http://guides.library.queensu.ca/bookreviews/writing.

Authors are encouraged to read the “Form and Preparation of Manuscripts” section on our website. After preparing the article, the Title Page, the Open Science Compliance Form, and the other materials in accordance with the journal's instructions, submissions must be sent to RBI through the electronic system available at this link:

https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/login

As part of the submission process, authors must verify that all of the requirements listed below are met:

• The work must not have been published previously or be submitted simultaneously to another journal;

• Manuscripts must be submitted in .docx and .pdf formats WITHOUT author identification;

• The Title Page and Open Science Compliance Form must accompany the text and follow the guidance in the “Supplementary Documents” section;

• The research is aligned with the journal’s thematic areas and scope;

• The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described under “Manuscript Preparation,” “Article Submission Format,” and “Citations and References”;

• Citations (author, year of publication and, where applicable, page) in the body of the text and in footnotes are included in the list of bibliographic references;

• The names of all authors and their respective contributions to the work are recorded on the Title Page. Authors may not be added or changed after submission or during the article evaluation or editorial process.

Once preparation is complete, submissions must be sent to RBI through the electronic system available at: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/login.

Tables, figures, boxes, and charts inserted in the manuscript must be numbered and followed by their respective sources. Figures must appear in the body of the text and also be submitted separately as supplementary documents at the time of submission, in high-resolution files (minimum 300 DPI) and .jpg format. Tables, boxes, and charts must be created in the text editor itself so that they can be edited, or submitted separately, preferably in .docx or .xlsx format. There is no maximum number permitted per submission; however, all visual elements should be used sparingly and should enrich the textual argument concisely.

Citations in the body of the text must follow NBR 10520 guidelines, and the reference list must comply with ABNT NBR 6023.

References must be listed in alphabetical order, without numbering, using single spacing with 6 pt before and 0 pt after each paragraph. If there is more than one work by the same author, cite them in chronological order of publication; if there is more than one work by the same author published in the same year, distinguish them using a, b, and c. Bibliographic references must include only works actually used in preparing the article.

Examples:

1. Books:

AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author's first name. Book title (in italics, only the first letter in uppercase): subtitle (not in italics). Edition. Place: Publisher, date. v. (Series or Collection).

Ex.: DOSI, G.; PAVITT, K.; SOETE, L. The economics of technical change and international trade. Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1990.

2. Book chapters:

AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author's first name. Chapter title without highlighting. In: followed by the book references: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author's first name. Book title (in italics, only the first letter in uppercase): subtitle (not in italics). Edition. Place: publisher, date, page number(s) consulted or v. (Series or Collection).

Ex.: EDQUIST, C. Systems of innovation approaches: their emergence and characteristics. In: EDQUIST, C. Systems of innovation: technologies, institutions and organizations. London and Washington: Pinter/Cassell Academic, 1997.

3. Works published in conference proceedings or similar publications:

AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author's first name. Title: subtitle. In: Name of event (in italics), number, year, place held. Publication title (in italics): publication subtitle (not in italics). Place of publication (city): Publisher, date, first-last pages of the work.

Ex.: POSSAS, M. L. Racionalidade e Regularidades: rumo a uma integração micro-macrodinâmica. In: XVII Encontro Nacional de Economia, 1989, Fortaleza, CE. Anais... Fortaleza/CE: ANPEC, 1989, p. 62-82.

4. Parts of periodical publications:

4.1. Journal articles

AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author's first name. Article title (without highlighting). Journal name (in italics), city, journal volume and number, pages, publication date.

Ex.: METCALFE, J. S. Equilibrium and Evolutionary Foundations of Competition and Technology Policy: New Perspectives on the Division of Labour and the Innovation Process. Revista Brasileira de Inovação, Campinas, v.2, n.1, p.111-146, 2009.

4.2. Newspaper articles

AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author's first name. Article title. Newspaper title. Number or title of section, section name or supplement, Place, first-last pages, day, month, year.

Ex.: GADELHA, C.; MUDEL, T. Inovação brasileira, impacto global. Folha de S. Paulo, 12/11/2013.

5. Monographs, dissertations, and theses:

AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author's first name. Title (in italics): subtitle, year, number of pages or volumes. (Category and area of concentration) Name of Faculty, Name of University, city.

Ex.: RUFFONI, J. Proximidade geográfica e inovação tecnológica de firmas: uma análise para o segmento produtor de máquinas para calçados da Itália e do Brasil, 2010, 251 f. (Doctoral Thesis in Science and Technology Policy) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas.

6. Online publications:

AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author's first name. Article title. Journal name. City, journal volume, journal number, number of pages, year. ISSN. Available at: <electronic address>. Accessed on: day/month/year. DOI (when applicable).

Ex.: TIGRE, Paulo Bastos. Paradigmas Tecnológicos e Teorias Econômicas da Firma. Revista Brasileira de Inovação, Campinas, SP, v. 4, n. 1, p. 187-223, Aug. 2009. ISSN 2178-2822. Available at: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8648911. Accessed on: 27 Jul. 2017. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.20396/rbi.v4i1.8648911.

Title Page

When submitting an article, authors must submit, through the online system, a page separate from the article containing:

1. Title in the article’s original language and title in English for articles in Portuguese or Spanish;

2. Full name of each author;

3. Affiliation of each author: University, City, State (if applicable), Country;

4. Email address of each author;

5. Indicate which author is the corresponding author;

6. ORCID of each author;

7. Contribution of each author to the manuscript: RBI adopts a specification system based on CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), adapted to the practices of journals in the field of “innovation studies.” This system summarizes author contributions as follows:

   • A. Theoretical and conceptual foundations and problematization;

   • B. Data research and statistical analysis;

   • C. Preparation of figures and tables;

   • D. Drafting and writing of the text;

   • E. Selection of bibliographic references.

8. Conflict of interest statement: if there is no conflict, please state “there is no conflict of interest”;

9. Funding source for the article: state the sources of support for the work, including sponsor names and contract number (if any), together with an explanation of the role of those sources. If there is no source of funding, please state “there is no source of funding”;

10. Acknowledgments (if any);

11. Data availability statement.

Available at: https://www.scielo.org/en/about-scielo/methodologies-and-technologies/formulario-sobre-conformidade-com-a-ciencia-aberta/.

It must be included on the Title Page, following the specifications under “Supplementary Documents.”

Instituto de Economia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Pitágoras, 353, Cidade Universitária, ZIP Code 13083-857, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, email: rbi@unicamp.br, phone: +55 (019) 3521-5708.