A governança do APL da Saúde como potencializadora de inovações na perspectiva dos empresários

Abstract

This study evaluated the perception of entrepreneurs in relation to governance capacity optimize the innovation of companies in the Local Productive Array of Health of Pelotas and region after its formal institutionalization. Among the results, it can be listed the importance given to the proximity to universities and research centers, improving production processes that resulted in the increasing of the quality of products offered, the initiatives, in a short term, have indicated the importance of practical actions combined and the conviction of the importance of governance as an improvement on the mechanism of success, based on the elaboration of a plan of medium and long term. However, there are still challenges such as the need for greater orientation of knowledge produced in universities and the innovation and the needs of enterprises, the construction of laboratories for testing and analyzing, the classification of labor and continuity of support policies for the sector and the construction of a management model for the PAH that is suitably addresses all companies, although belonging to the same sector are spatially agglomerate, they have productive specificities which usually distanced in characteristics in successful arrays.