INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONS FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF THE FEDERAL NETWORK OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

This research paper examines the importance of inter-organizational network management as a government policy tool to promote regional development. This pattern requires Federal Government intervention so as to compensate for the imbalance that this causes and to guarantee that economic growth resulting from government actions leads to development in all regions of the country, thereby avoiding the traditional mechanisms of wealth concentration. For this, a methodology of content analysis was used based on a relevant public policy aimed at promoting development within Brazil and by analyzing the data collected in relation to the current theory related to strategy, local development and inter-organizational networks in general. The results show that, when the applied policy we had studied in this work, was implemented the networks had a positive influence on the outcome of the policy objectives and represented an extremely powerful support tool, being one of the most important factors to boost development.