Sources of knowledge of Born Global companies in the area of biotechnology in the State of São Paulo

• Grant number: 10/08862-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2010
• End date: October 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Glauco Antonio Truzzi Arbix
• Grantee: Flávio Amaral de Campos Verde
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This Scientific Initiation Project is part of the research developed by Prof. Dr. Glauco Arbix, from Department of Sociology at University of São Paulo (USP) and coordinator of the Observatory for Innovation, in the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP, named "Governmental Support Policies for Internationalization of Brazilian Companies", supported by FAPESP (Process number 2008/09051-9). It consists of finding and reading the literature about "Born Global" enterprises in the area of Biotechnology, the prospection of ten of them and interviews with their managers and with researchers in this field. Secondly, we will analyze the data acquired by this procedure.