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A Teoria do Capital Humano (TCH) tem sido explicativa para os problemas relacionados à educação e ao desenvolvimento econômico. Este estudo recorre à TCH com o propósito de buscar entendimento para o fenômeno da disponibilidade ou escassez de recursos humanos com formação nas áreas de Ciências, Tecnologia, Engenharia, Matemática e afins, que são essenciais para o desenvolvimento de empresas da economia do conhecimento. Assim, o objetivo principal neste artigo é o de propor dimensões, categorias e elementos de análise, identificados na TCH, que favorecem a análise sobre o fenômeno da disponibilidade ou escassez desses recursos humanos. Para atingir tal objetivo foi realizada uma revisão da literatura sobre TCH, considerando referências seminais e contemporâneas. O estudo propõe os aspectos relacionados à formação e à qualificação; à presença de fatores motivadores em nível da organização; ao potencial de mobilidade profissional e às práticas de investimento em desenvolvimento da carreira como explicativos para a compreensão do problema da disponibilidade/escassez de profissionais de recursos humanos capacitados nas áreas de Ciências, Tecnologia, Engenharia, Matemática e afins.

The phenomenon of the entrepreneurial university has been the subject of important debates and discussions in different economic and social contexts due to the need for greater interaction between university, industry, and government. As a result, several universities in different parts of the world have been engaged in a transformation process towards a new organizational model, with adherence to a more entrepreneurial or innovative university. In this context, the aim of this study is to analyze the pathways developed by studied universities pursuing an entrepreneurial university model. Therefore, the technique of multiple case study was used having three universities as the empirical field: two in Brazil, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and one in Sweden, Lund University (LU). Results show that those universities developed pathways based on research activities, which significantly contributed to the increase of university-industry-government relationships. In addition, the three cases show the relevance of a close relationship with their surroundings when implementing the third academic mission. ; El fenómeno de la universidad emprendedora ha sido objeto de importantes debates y discusiones en diferentes contextos económicos y sociales, debido a la necesidad de una mayor interacción entre la universidad, la industria y el gobierno. Como resultado, varias universidades en diferentes partes del mundo han participado en un proceso de transformación hacia un nuevo modelo organizacional, con adhesión a una universidad más emprendedora o innovadora. En este contexto, esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la trayectoria seguida por las universidades estudiadas en busca de un modelo de univerdad emprendedora. Para esto, se utilizó la técnica de estudio de caso múltiple, teniendo como campo empírico tres universidades: dos en Brasil, la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) y la ...

ABSTRACT Purpose: This study aimed to assess processes related to absorptive capacity (AC) dimensions in innovation-generating companies of traditional sectors in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Originality/value: Companies may establish differential advantages in the market due to how far they apply acquired knowledge and use organizational mechanisms. These mechanisms include intangible elements essential to the development of AC, a capacity that companies do not often recognize as important to generate innovation. Based on previous studies, we established a summary of AC elements and AC within its different dimensions. Then we created an assessment tool for AC analysis and knowledge generation dynamics in innovative micro-processes in organizations of the traditional sectors. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire with 47 items to assess potential and realized AC and their dimensions. We assessed two companies on their AC. These companies were participants of a project of the Núcleo de Apoio à Gestão da Inovação (Nagirs) of Instituto Euvaldo Lodi (IEL) in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, oriented to enhance innovation in traditional sectors. This study used content analysis and compared the evidence found with findings in the literature. Findings: The results suggested that, in companies of traditional sectors, AC can be considered explicative to innovation generation and the organizational dynamics orchestrating mechanisms for knowledge renewal. Data reveals that knowledge renewal requires managers and qualified workers' engagement in search and application of external information that responds to the company's strategic challenges. The study also contributes to establishing an assessment tool for AC in companies of traditional sectors.

This paper aims to present an overview of articles published in the Journal of International Business Studies (jibs), since 2003 till 2012. According to Web of Knowledge website, jibs is the most impacting publication focused in International Business. We analyzed 498 articles in order to select papers built under qualitative basis. We found 65 articles under this premise. Firstly, we analyzed keywords under topics focusing in the entire period (2003-2012). Secondly, we analyzed whole abstracts, focusing in the last five years (2008-2012). Afterwards, we detailed keywords, objectives, strategy of research, object, industry and region where they took place. We concluded that qualitative papers are losing space in jibs. Last years, quantitative papers are serving more to confirm what we know from other studies. Paradoxically, meanwhile complex institutional environments are gaining evidence in International Business, statistics and calculi are those which have been gaining space. More qualitative studies might provide an enriching strategy for better understanding what is going on in new boundaries of IB, like emerging countries. It is a goal of jibs to expand qualitative studies; it could represent opportunities to researchers from countries less researched, like Brazil.