Inovação frugal na manufatura: uma revisão sistemática de literatura

Abstract

The concept of Frugal Innovation emerges as a low-cost alternative for companies seeking to incorporate technological development into their products and production processes. Frugal innovations are new techniques or services, new or modified products, developed with few resources in order to meet the needs of consumers. Thus, the objective of this dissertation was to conduct a Systematic Literature Review (RSL) based on the state of the art of research on frugal innovation in manufacturing. A total of 87 articles covering the period from 2012 to 2022 were found from the searches performed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases that, from the selection criteria, inclusion/exclusion resulted in the composition of the research corpus of 40 documents. The analysis of the indicators of scientific production of the selected corpus was carried out; the temporal trajectory of the articles published in the databases of aforementioned journals; authors most evidenced in the corpus; analysis of bibliographic coupling; proposition of a methodological framework created from the primary studies; analysis of the productivity of the journals of the corpus and, finally, the analysis of the keywords of the corpus. As results found, it could be seen that the theme Frugal Innovation is recent, with increasing studies from 2017, pointing to Germany and the United Kingdom as the countries that are most cited in studies on the subject. The words that are most associated with Frugal Innovation are base of the pyramid, facilitators and standard, evidenced through the articles that frugal innovation has some innovation patterns that require facilitators such as incentives, and that meet the base of the economic pyramid, although there are efforts for the activities to reach other social strata. It was observed that the theme of frugal innovation has been a recurring theme in academic studies, arousing the interest of scholars, thus having a significant impact on the emerging economy. The systematic literature review fulfilled all the proposed objectives, however, the specification "manufacturing" was not emphasized as a result of the extraction of post-treatment keywords. However, the results of the research make clear the importance of the theme of frugal innovation and how this concept of innovation has been attributed to various strands of the social sciences, with a significant impact on studies in innovation economics. For future research, it is suggested studies that can broaden the understanding of frugal innovation in specific manufacturing segments, as well as identify in which types of manufacturing activities frugal innovations are most present, as this can direct governments to incentive public policies and other business opportunities for the market.