The system of innovation in the edge of chaos: propositions in a regional case

The systems of innovations are sets of agents, politicies, resources and technologies that, articulated, promote one or more innovations, radical or incremental. Besides the individual changes of each agent in the process of innovation, the inter organizational relation creates common management factors between the involved agents. These factors turn out to be an extrinsic result of the relation, guided by the common objective that the parts share. The present article analysis these factors from the theory of the edge of chaos, proposing the application of it to the system of innovation. This proposal has the objective to enlarge the empiric application of the edge of chaos theoretical approach, at the same time that contributes to the comprehension of the systems of innovation. Through the semi-structured interviews with representative agents from the system, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in south Brazil, it has obtained information, after crossed with the theoretical reference. The results of the research created propositions about the resources, technologies, politics and learning. It is expected to reply the study in national extent in order to confirm the obtained data in this stage.