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Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, ... more Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, many companies fail to systematize the process of innovation. The innovation process depends on a complex combination of factors related to organizational culture, which are not easily identified. This paper proposes a collaborative approach to identify such factors through group storytelling.

2009 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2009

Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, ... more Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, many companies fail to systematize the innovation process. The innovation process depends on a complex combination of factors related to organizational culture, which are not easily identified. This paper proposes a collaborative approach to identify innovation factors by using the group storytelling approach to capture organizational knowledge.

2009 Simposio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos, 2009

Innovation has been treated as an essential factor to the development of organizations and wealth... more Innovation has been treated as an essential factor to the development of organizations and wealth generation. However, the inherent complexity of the process has shown a hard obstacle to the diffusion of innovation on enterprises. There is no magic formula to innovate; companies that are known to be innovative have different innovation processes. This is because innovation is intimately bound to the organizational culture. In this paper, we propose a method to identify patterns that influence the innovative environment. We do this through a collaborative dynamic to retrieve and analyze knowledge about innovative experiences.

Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, ... more Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, many companies fail to systematize the innovation process. The innovation process depends on a complex combination of factors related to organizational culture, which are not easily identified. This paper proposes a collaborative method to identify innovation factors from a successful project that led to innovation. Our method

A startup ecosystem is a creative environment aiming to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. ... more A startup ecosystem is a creative environment aiming to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Startups interact with other entities, building a complex social network. Those connections arise from the interdependence and co-evolution ties between different actors, who share resources to achieve common goals. A smart startup ecosystem demands an understanding of the interests and capabilities of each participant. It could allow identifying convergences and possible partnerships that can help in the new business growth. The Coral platform is a social network analysis based approach to assist in the evaluation of existing relationships in communities. This paper applies the Coral platform to support incubators' activities in the local community improvements. Our case study investigated the members' social and technological aspects in a small entrepreneurial group according to the essential indicators defined by managers: experts, reputation, and professional profile.

Startups ecosystem is a creative environment to aim promoting en-trepreneurship and the birth of ... more Startups ecosystem is a creative environment to aim promoting en-trepreneurship and the birth of innovative business. In this complex social network, the activities derive from the relationship of interdependence and co-evolution between actors with different purposes, who share resources to achieve common goals. The dynamic of this environment requires understanding the interests and capacities of each participant as a way to identify convergences and possible partnerships that can help in the development of new businesses. This paper presents a method to assist the identification interests and vocations from relationships extracted from interactions in social network tools in startups ecosystems. To verify applicability, an empirical study was conducted from a conversation group by Whatsapp held by managers of technology business incubators from Brazilian federal institutes of education and research. Os ecossistemas de startups são ambientes criativos que desempe-nham um importante papel na geração de inovação e desenvolvi-mento econômico [9]. Nesses espaços, os empreendedores procu-ram validar ideias inovadoras em um curto intervalo de tempo e transformá-las em negócios disruptivos com baixos investimentos iniciais [7]. Nessa comunidade empreendedora, cada membro possui um ob-jetivo específico. Segundo Dedehayir et al. [10], os empreendedores são essenciais para o surgimento de novos negócios, as organiza-ções de apoio, tais como incubadoras e aceleradoras, desempenham o papel de facilitadores no processo de desenvolvimento de novos empreendimentos, enquanto os grupos de investidores dão o aporte financeiro necessário para o crescimento em escala. Essa natureza diversa dos participantes contribui com diferentes perspectivas e conduz ao enriquecimento das ideias que irão resultar em novos produtos e modelos de negócios [26]. Em um ambiente consolidado, há um grande número de partici-pantes, aumentando as possibilidades de parcerias. A pluralidade pode influenciar positivamente no desenvolvimento de negócios [27]. Porém, a identificação de parceiros adequados para projetos vai se tornando uma tarefa mais difícil, pois é necessário conjugar os interesses mútuos [16]. Neste contexto, é importante facilitar a formação de parcerias por meio de recomendações baseadas nos interesses dessas redes tipicamente dinâmica, complexas e de pes-soas que se relacionam utilizando mídias para comunicação textual. Essas recomendações passam pela identificação dos assuntos dis-cutidos, interesses dos participantes e possível reconhecimento de especialistas para recomendação de parcerias na rede. Há alguns estudos acerca do assunto [1, 9], contudo faltam métodos e meca-nismos de apoio a esta tarefa [12, 14]. Neste sentido, fizemos um primeiro estudo que propõe um mé-todo para auxiliar na identificação de interesses, especialistas e in-fluenciadores a partir das relações extraídas de interações em mídias sociais online formada por atores de um ecossistema empreendedor. Em seguida, é apresentado um experimento que foi realizado para fazer uma avaliação inicial da aplicabilidade da abordagem, a par-tir de uma amostragem com quatro meses de conversas coletadas de um grupo de Whatsapp mantido por gerentes de incubadoras tecnológicas de institutos federais. O grupo de conversas tem sido

Startup ecosystem is a creative environment that aims to promote entrepreneurship and innovative ... more Startup ecosystem is a creative environment that aims to promote entrepreneurship and innovative business. In this complex social network, the activities derive from the ties of interdependence and co-evolution between actors with different purposes, who share resources to achieve common goals. A smarter startup ecosystem demands an understanding of the interests and capabilities of each participant as a way to identify convergences and possible partnerships that can help in the development of new business. This paper presents the Coral framework, an approach based on big social data to assist in the analysis of existing relationships in startup ecosystems. We show the partial results of the research and future works.

Conference Presentations by Rafael Escalfoni

A smart startup ecosystem must own capabilities and information to the accurate allocation of res... more A smart startup ecosystem must own capabilities and information to the accurate allocation of resources among its participants. So, it uses the syn-ergy of partnerships to enhance startups and boost new ventures. The constant evolution of such communities implies an exponential increase in produced data, which can bring essential business insights, despite the involved technical challenges , such as diverse sources, structures, and meanings. To tackle these issues, we are developing the Coral Platform, that joins a repository of data collectors and preprocessors, a flexible dataset, graph models, and ways of visualization.

2009 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2009

Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, ... more Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, many companies fail to systematize the innovation process. The innovation process depends on a complex combination of factors related to organizational culture, which are not easily identified. This paper proposes a collaborative approach to identify innovation factors by using the group storytelling approach to capture organizational knowledge.

2009 Simposio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos, 2009

Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, ... more Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in organizations. Despite its importance, many companies fail to systematize the innovation process. The innovation process depends on a complex combination of factors related to organizational culture, which are not easily identified. This paper proposes a collaborative method to identify innovation factors from a successful project that led to innovation. Our method