Hélio Gomes de Carvalho

• Dr. Engineering
• Senior Researcher at Federal University of Technology of Paraná

In the context of Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0, various enabling technologies stand out, with RPA (Robotic Process Automation) being one of them. This article aims to analyze Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools based on Gartner's Magic Quadrant. Tools such as Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, NICE, SS&C Blue Prism, and Ui...

The Digital Transformation 4.0, which brings opportunities for innovation, involves several enabling technologies, among which Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out. In this context, this study aims to identify programming languages, as well as libraries and tools, focused on AI applications. Four programming languages for AI were highlighted: C#...

Resumo: Este artigo analisa ferramentas de Automação Robótica de Processos (RPA) com base no Quadrante Mágico da Gartner. Ferramentas como Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, NICE, SS&C Blue Prism e UiPath são comparadas em usabilidade, custo e funcionalidades. Alternativas gratuitas como BotCity, OpenRPA e Python Auto GUI também são dis...

A transformação digital 4.0, que traz oportunidades de inovação, envolve diversas tecnologias habilitadoras, dentre as quais se destaca a Inteligência Artificial (IA). Neste contexto, este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar linguagens de programação, bem como bibliotecas e ferramentas, focadas em aplicações de IA. Quatro linguagens de programaç...

RESUMO: A criação da COTEC Portugal foi uma iniciativa da Presidência de Portugal e tornou-se a associação empresarial voltada para inovação mais importante no país, que inicialmente congregou grandes empresas e reconhecidamente inovadoras. Entretanto, as microempresas, pequenas e médias empresas (PME) correspondem a 99,9% das empresas portuguesas....

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) play a large role in different economies; hence the relevance of research on the factors that may leverage MSMEs competitiveness such as innovation and management. This research aims to review highly cited articles in the Web of Science database regarding management and/or innovation in the context...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the characteristics of Brazilian micro and small businesses (MSBs) and the main lessons derived from the largest small business innovation support program in the country, the Local Innovation Agents – Agentes Locais de Inovação (ALI) Program. Design/methodology/approach In total, 34 papers were selected from the...

Objective of the study: This research aims to systematically review the frameworks (i.e. tools) proposed and applied by the literature on service innovation.Methodology / approach: The methodology is based on a systematic literature review, which included two main steps. The former revisited the work of Carlborg, Kindstrom, and Kowalkowski (2014),...

This research aims to analyze and compare the selection of relevant papers by two bibliometric methods, namely, the Knowledge Development Process-Constructivist (Proknow-C) and the Methodi Ordinatio, which were also discussed in terms of common steps, limitations and underlying assumptions. Particularly, the topic of knowledge management in small a...

Purpose This research aims to analyze the relations between coopetition and innovation, by comparing two coopetitive tourism SMEs networks in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The first network comprises 23 SMEs in Honey Island, a natural reserve, and the second network comprises 21 out of 25 SMEs in the Campos Gerais region, recognized by its s...

This research aims to analyze management and innovation patterns among micro and small businesses (MSBs) that participated during 2015-2016 in the Local Innovation Agents (LIA) Program from the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE). Complemented by factor analyses, two-step cluster analysis was applied on 6674 MSBs' management...

This research aims to analyze the influence of Engineering professors’ competencies on their performance, as perceived by Engineering students and graduates from a Brazilian federal public university. Regarding methodology, a set of Engineering educators’ competencies were proposed, identified, and validated by exploratory factor analysis (EFA), pa...

A etapa de Monitoramento e Avaliação conclui o processo SelfInova, sugerindo a implantação de alguns instrumentos para acompanhar a eficiência e a eficácia em torno da inovação e sua gestão.Mesmo com a conclusão do processo, o esforço deve permanecer contínuo para o reinício programado de novos ciclos do processo. Trata-se de um sistema que permite...

As empresas brasileiras inovam por meio de diferentes tipos de inova- ção (produtos, processos, marketing, serviços e organizacional) e cada vez mais fatores não tecnológicos tornam-se essenciais para as mesmas, a exemplo do lado soft da inovação (formas de gestão, aspectos culturais, institucionais, humanos, educacionais etc.). Portanto, é cada ve...

A partir do diagnóstico e da análise do ambiente competitivo (Capítulos 1 e 2), a empresa precisa se preparar para as fases seguintes da evolução da metodologia. Neste sentido, é o momento de capacitar as pessoas que atuam na organização, envolvendo os níveis estratégicos, táticos e operacionais. O foco será direcionado para os gestores, para que o...

As etapas anteriores permitiram gerar um conjunto de informações que necessita ser organizado de forma a constituir um plano capaz de incorporar as oportunidades de inovação propriamente e a sua adequada gestão de forma permanente e sistêmica. Trata-se da elaboração de um Plano de Inovação, que vem a incorporar os dois principais resultados do Self...

By means of the Local Innovation Agents (LIA) Program, the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) has conveyed innovation to Brazilian micro and small businesses (MSBs). Within this setting, this paper aims to analyze the impact of organizational innovativeness on product-oriented innovativeness in agroindustry small businesses...

Created by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) and developed in partnership with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the local innovation agents (LIA) programme aims to convey innovation to Brazilian micro and small businesses (MSBs) and has covered around 150 000 MSBs since 2008. No...

The Local Innovation Agents - LIA (Agentes Locais de Inovação - ALI) Program of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) has monitored over 150,000 small businesses throughout Brazil over the last few years. Within this setting, this article aims to demonstrate the panorama of innovation and management of Brazilian micro and...

The ALI Program of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) has monitored over 150,000 small businesses throughout Brazil over the last few years. Within this setting, this article aims to demonstrate the panorama of innovation and management of Brazilian micro and small businesses (MSBs) that were in the initial phase of the...

The Brazilian micro and small business support service (SEBRAE) developed the local innovation agents program (LIA) mainly to convey the culture of innovation to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By means of correlational hierarchical cluster analysis of 412 companies' innovation radar, this research aims to identify the main innovation st...

Purpose: Innovation has been widely studied in business and economics, but different innovation and innovativeness measures have been used by scholars. Within this context, this research aims to identify the main innovation and innovativeness measures used by high-impact or recent papers within the past 10 years. Design/methodology/approach: Regar...

(Abstract & Resumo) Companies generally seek on innovation the source of competitive advantage, and some seek on the cooperation as a means of increasing its capacity to develop innovations. In the context of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs), the Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises (SEBRAE) has created the Innovation Loc...

(English / Portuguese) The Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises (SEBRAE) developed the Local Innovation Agents Program (ALI) mainly to convey the culture of innovation to micro and small enterprises. The research aimed to identify the Dimensions' clustering structure of the Innovation Radar of the sectors of agribusiness, M...

[Abstract - English / Resumo - Português] The local innovation agents of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) seek to develop the innovation competences of enterprises, but also end up developing their own competences during the program. This research aims to identify the personal competences developed by the local innov...

RESUMO O conhecimento, na era da informação, é um dos recursos mais valiosos para que as organizações se mantenham em um patamar competitivo. Da mesma forma, o efeito que as inovações apresentam na atual conjuntura, confirma a necessidade que as empresas possuem de gerenciar e reter seus conhecimentos, principalmente os conhecimentos estratégicos,...

The local innovation agents of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) seek to develop the innovation competences of enterprises, but also end up developing their own competences during the program. This research aims to identify the personal competences developed by the local innovation agents during the 2012-2014 cycle of...

Com frequência os gestores convencidos, ou mesmo convertidos pelo “mantra” da inovação como recurso para sustentabilidade da sua organização defrontam-se com uma situação inicial crítica: possuir uma visão clara dos meios que sua empresa dispõe para inovar. Para suprir esta necessidade a SelfInova estabeleceu a Etapa inicial de Diagnóstico que foca...

The present article approaches as central theme the Assistive Technology. Its main objective is to enhance the understanding of the user-centered design and the emotional dimension involved in the process of innovation of the assistive equipments. The adopted method was the situational analysis. Starting from counterpoints with renowned authors of...

As organizações, em geral, têm buscado a inovação como meio para obtenção de vantagem competitiva. No contexto das micro e pequenas empresas (MPEs), essa prática tem sido apoiada pelo Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas (SEBRAE) por meio do programa Agentes Locais de Inovação (ALI), que tem como objetivo fortalecer a prática da...

(English / Português) Based on the initial Innovation Radar, the aim of this paper was to identify, in the state of Parana, the innovation scenario of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) of agribusiness, construction, and clothing sectors in the 2012-2014 cycle. The Radar has thirteen dimensions and integrates the Innovation Local Agents Program. T...

Maintaining qualified personnel in research development and innovation environments (RD & I) companies with innovative profile, it has been a challenge. Therefore, this article presents the results of research on the policies and practices of human resources contribute to maintaining motivated teams. The survey was conducted by content analysis plu...

Based on the initial Innovation Radar, the aim of this paper was to identify, in the state of Parana, the innovation scenario of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) of agribusiness, construction, and clothing sectors in the 2012-2014 cycle. The Radar has thirteen dimensions and integrates the Innovation Local Agents Program. The comparison of the cy...

This article investigates the process of technology transfer in the Embrapa-Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, one of the most important center for tropical agricultural technology in the world. Our research is survey-based, and a questionnaire was applied to the employees working at strategic and operational level of a research unit of E...

Este artículo identifica la percepción de los alumnos de Ingeniería, Tecnología y Técnico de la Universidad Tecnológica Federal del Paraná (UTFPR) sobre la Responsabilidad Social (RS) mediante un cuestionario estructurado en tres ejes: i) Percepción sobre RS en las empresas; ii) En relación a UTFPR e, iii) RS sobre sí mismos. Por un lado, las accio...

This article identifies the perceptions of students in Engineering, Technology and Technical Course at the Federal University of Technology, Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Ponta Grossa, on Social Responsibility (SR) using a structured questionnaire in three areas: i) perception of CSR in companies, ii) in relation to UTFPR, and iii) RS about themselves. Ac...

Apesar de ser uma ferramenta muito importante e que contribui significativamente para o sucesso de um projeto, a comunicação ainda é administrada de maneira ineficiente em diversas organizações, sobretudo nas do setor público; o qual possui características próprias que podem dificultar a execução dos processos de gerenciamento da comunicação de um...

A inovação se configura como um processo irreversível incluindo diversas etapas e aspectos financeiros, culturais e organizacionais. Diversos modelos de inovação têm sido relatados na literatura, entre eles o modelo de inovação aberta (Open Innovation) e o de inovação distribuída (Distributed Innovation). O presente artigo procura apresentar concei...

O objetivo deste estudo é identificar as práticas de gestão do conhecimento que contribuem para reter o conhecimento técnico gerado em processos de especificação de requisitos de software, desenvolvidos sob encomenda. Apesar da grande quantidade de pesquisas que procuram entender os processos organizacionais na ótica do conhecimento, existe carênci...

This paper has the objective to check how the Cleaner Production together with suggestions Program can improve the process of a company of the Casting Industry of secondary aluminum. This search, of qualitative nature in relation to their goals, performed through of the procedure of literature revision and of case study. Evidenced that the applicat...

Situated in Paraná state in southern Brazil, the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba (MRC) is home to an automotive sector which plays a major role in the local and national economy. In order to expand the development of the automotive sector and to create new local and worldwide opportunities, the Federation of Industries of Paraná (FIEP) developed an...

Programa de sugestões como apoio à Produção mais Limpa para rentabilidade e otimização dos processos organizacionais UTFPR UTFPR UTFPR UTFPR UTFPR Resumo: Este artigo tem por objetivo verifi car como a Produção mais Limpa, em conjunto com o Programa de Sugestões, pode melhorar o processo de uma empresa do ramo de fundição de alumínio secundário, na...

Resumo Os softwares de apoio aos processos de gerenciamento das sugestões permitem às empresas estimular, captar e gerenciar, de modo sistemático, as ideias dos seus colaboradores. Nesse contexto, este artigo objetiva identificar o grau de atendimento desses aplicativos às etapas identificadas nos Programas de Sugestão organizacional. Foram levanta...

This chapter aims to present which the main abilities to the knowledge worker in the strategic, managerial and operational levels are according to Human Resources Managers” perspectives for the coming years. An exploratory research of qualitative character was accomplished, having as intentional sample the Human Resources Managers of twenty compani...

The objective of this research was to analyze how the flood of information generated in the conception and accomplishment of the strategical planning incites the creation of the organizational knowledge, and for consequence, the management of the different knowledge ' in the organization what makes possible the formularization of one adequate strat...

Motivated by the complexities of modern work’s environment, organizations are investing in a new organizational model, based in teams. Teams, however, have some limitations, including the difficulty to share and manage knowledge: while efforts are applied in the pursuit of results or an end product, teams isolate in internal processes and have diff...

The speed of transformation in which the world has passed, he brought a new organizational paradigm driven and pressed by vectors social, economic, environmental and technological, printing an innovative and dynamic character in the ability to formulation of strategy and intelligent connection and synchronized activities end. This reorganization pr...

Resumo: A gestão do conhecimento como fator de inovação e de diferenciação pode ser utilizada pelas micro e pequenas empresas através do tratamento diferenciado e favorecido proporcionado pelo Sistema Integrado de Pagamento de Impostos e Contribuições das Microempresas e Empresas de Pequeno Porte (SIMPLES). A redução dos impostos e contribuições to...

This paper presents a subsidiary planning process used as a basis to promote the subsidiary initiatives on a diversified multinational network. It uses taxonomies adapted from different sources in a process demonstrating their complementary aspects. It considers the characterisation of the subsidiary value chains, the long-term strategic subsidiary...

The Higher Education, of the point of view of the Brazilian government's current politics, together with the changes in the economic-social context, it has been object of many questions and reorganizations. The Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES) have been induced to a new behavior in the society. The new behavior, however, demands a ne...

ABSTRACT This article aims to difference the main aspects of Knowledge,Management,(KM) and Competitive Intelligence (IC). Definitions, interpretations,functions and objectives are presented based at different authors and point of view. Results of a recent research about KMat the firms (1997), well as the difficulties to implement these systems. The...

A presente pesquisa visa apresentar a importância da gestão do conhecimento na promoção da inovação tecnológica para os processos produtivos nas indústrias. No atual mercado globalizado e competitivo onde estas organizações atuam, faz-se imprescindível um acompanhamento das mudanças ambientais que ocorrem dia-a-dia nas linhas de produção. Tais muda...

RESUMO Este artigo busca caracterizar os diferentes aspectos inerentes à Gestão do Conhecimento (GC), à Inteligência Competitiva (IC) e à forte inter-relação existente entre ambas. São apresentadas definições, funções e objetivos a partir do ponto de vista de diversos autores e comentadas as principais dificuldades que ocorrem quando da implantação...

Dentro de uma Instituição de Educação Tecnológica faz-se necessário o estímulo das discussões que permitam uma maior compreensão dos aspectos relacionados à Tecnologia, Técnica, Ensino Técnico e Educação Tecnológica. Portanto, é de suma importância o entendimento desses conceitos e de suas interrelações. Entretanto, percebeu-se, através de conversa...