Estratégias de Financiamento à Inovação em Empresas de Base Tecnológica: considerações a partir de um caso da Incubadora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Abstract

Innovation can generate organizational and social development. Technology - based companies contribute to the generation of business opportunities and to national technological development. This paper aims to analyse the finan cing strategies for innovation practiced by a software developer company. The theoretical framework is based on innovation, financing for innovation and technology - based companies. The research is carried out through a qualitative case study with a company that was incubated in the business incubator of the Universidade Estadual de Londrina. The research seeks to identify, register and interpret the financing strategies used by the company. The projects developed by the company in its origins were supported by the incubator structure and government resources. Nowadays, being graduated, the company maintains partnerships with educational institutions and has projects financed by development agencies. Its innovations are financed mostly by resources that come from funding agencies, such as Finep and CNPq. The company was already benefited in eight different projects. The study concludes that strategic choices of financing growth are quite relevant and that the success in financing innovation stems from accumula ted experience in the incubator and also from the founders? characteristics.