Bridge CEPID - Ecosystem management for sustainability transitions

• Grant number: 22/14561-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC
• Start date: February 01, 2025
• End date: January 31, 2030
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Administration - Business Administration
• Principal Investigator: José Afonso Mazzon
• Grantee: José Afonso Mazzon
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Aldo Roberto Ometto ; Ana Lucia Duarte Lanna ; Bruno Brandão Fischer ; Fábio Frezatti ; Felipe Mendes Borini ; Gustavo Hermínio Salati Marcondes de Moraes ; Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes ; Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes ; Maria Tereza Leme Fleury ; Roberto Carlos Bernardes
• Associated researchers: Abraão Freires Saraiva Júnior ; Adalton Masalu Ozaki ; Adriana Marotti de Mello ; Afonso Carlos Corrêa Fleury ; Alsones Balestrin ; André Leme Fleury ; Andres Rodriguez Veloso ; Breno Torres Santiago Nunes ; Camila Veneo Campos Fonseca ; Charles Kirschbaum ; Cristiano Gonçalves Pereira ; Dafne Oliveira Carlos de Morais ; Dinorá Eliete Floriani ; Dirk Meissner ; Dirk Michael Boehe ; Fábio de Oliveira Paula ; Fernanda Cecília Ribeiro Cahen ; Flávia Luciane Consoni ; Gabriela Scur Almudi ; Giancarlo Gomes ; Gustavo Hermínio Salati Marcondes de Moraes ; Henrique Machado Barros ; Janaina Mascarenhas Hornos da Costa ; Joseph Sarkis ; Juliana Bonomi Santos de Campos ; Kadigia Faccin ; Luciano Barin Cruz ; Maicon Gouvea de Oliveira ; Mariana Bassi Sutter ; Maribel Guerrero ; Mateus Cecílio Gerolamo ; Muhammad Mustafa Raziq ; Otávio Bandeira De Lamônica Freire ; Paulo Antônio Zawislak ; Paulo Negreiros de Figueiredo ; Paulo Savaget Nascimento ; Perla Calil Pongeluppe Wadhy Rebehy ; Rafaela Almeida Cordeiro ; Renato de Castro Garcia ; Rodrigo Lanna Franco da Silveira ; Samuel Façanha Câmara ; Sílvio Luís de Vasconcellos ; Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina ; Stelvia Vigolvino Matos ; Susann Schaefer

Abstract

Overcoming Brazilian and Global grand challenges (e.g., climate urgency, deindustrialization, and inequality) might require radical innovations characterized by high uncertainties and complexity. Rarely these innovations are developed by a single actor. Research on innovation history has shown that radical innovation developments often involve creating and orchestrating different types of ecosystems (e.g., innovation, entrepreneurial, circular). As each ecosystem is a unique phenomenon involving diverse actors from distinct industries and sectors, conceiving and managing ecosystems for mitigating grand challenges are complex tasks. Surprisingly, we still need more theoretical insights and empirical guidance on ecosystem management (EM) concerning different ecosystem categories. Narrowing this gap requires bringing knowledge from distinct scientific and practical fields, notably management, economics, policy-making, and social sciences. However, there is a lack of density of practitioners and scholars on EM for addressing grand challenges, notably in the context of the State of São Paulo and Brazil. Therefore, creating a center on research, innovation, and diffusion might represent an inflection point for unleashing the emergence and development of a new scientific field and practice community on EM for grand challenges. In this vein, the center's mission is to be a major global knowledge and innovation platform on EM for overcoming the grand challenges. Such a platform would encompass three significant discoveries: i. global ecosystem management for the grand challenges index; ii. a broad portfolio of theories, frameworks, and tools for EM concerning grand challenges; and iii. a digital platform composed of software related to EM for grand challenges. To do so, we set eight research programs focused on different ecosystem types and perspectives of EM for addressing three grand challenges: climate urgency, deindustrialization, and inequality. We hope that the center will provide significant contributions to different stakeholders. The center will provide guides, managerial technologies, and software for creating, managing, and transforming ecosystems for entrepreneurs and established firms. For universities, we hope to offer a new set of unique orchestration capabilities. For policymakers, we will provide a new portfolio of frameworks and tools focused on creating and nurturing ecosystems rather than increasing the knowledge stock in society. Beyond promoting startups and knowledge transfer to these actors, the center will diffuse knowledge through scientific and practical congress, acceleration programs, and a learning platform composed of master classes, digital toolkits, podcasts, cases, newsletters, and news. (AU)