Redes, mercado e ecossistema: uma análise de implementação da Política Pública de Inovação TECNOVA no estado de Alagoas

Abstract

The Tecnova Program marked a milestone for Alagoas, initiating a path of innovative policies supporting innovative products, processes, and services. Launched by FINEP and operationalized in a decentralized manner, Tecnova aimed to create favorable conditions for the growth of micro and small enterprises through state financing of new solutions. Employing an analytical and exploratory methodology utilizing secondary data (plans, reports, and official documents) provided by the Public Administration, along with primary data collected through semi-structured interviews and ethnographic accounts, this study examines the implementation of the policy in its first and second editions, released in 2013 and 2020, respectively. The central question guiding the analysis is: how did the processes of implementing the Tecnova public policy unfold in Alagoas, considering the practices and interactions related to it? Here, we scrutinize the nuances of the implementation process, exploring the factors influencing it and assessing whether they altered the actions of street-level bureaucrats, resonating in choices, decisions, practices, and interactions with the policy's target audience. As hypotheses, this work assumes that: (i) Significant changes occurred in the implementation processes of the policy between editions, directly influencing the program's effectiveness and efficiency; (ii) decisions made by street-level bureaucrats (implementers) during execution intersected with personal private decisions; (iii) Tecnova impacted the dynamics of the Local Innovation System.