COMPETENCES FOR INNOVATION: A PERSPECTIVE FROM BRAZILIAN AND NORWEGIAN RESEARCHERS
Innovation; Competences; Active methodologies.
Innovation is strategic to promote companies’ competitiveness, especially in these contexts where quick changes are necessary, and uncertainties are significant. Organizations are made of people and its innovation potential, in general, is the result of these people's intellectual resources and their individual and collective skills. In this sense, understanding the actors responsible for promoting innovation and their skills is a way to ensure better use of knowledge and innovative capabilities. Kloeckner (2018) describes that competences are distributed in 3 dimensions: functional, personal, and cognitive. Cognitive competences are those related to acquired knowledge, personal competences correspond to attitudes and, finally, functional competences, correspond to skills, including technical skills. Education institutions, which are references in research into new solutions for technical problems identified in the market, operate focused on the academic field. For this reason, these institutions still perform activities that result in innovation below its potential. This present study aims to propose a practical tool to foster innovation, based on a diagnosis of the competences for innovation of Brazilian and Norwegian researchers. To respond to the general objective of this research, which is exploratory and descriptive in nature, the study will comprise a quali-quantitative approach. Based on the analysis carried out, this study will result in didactic material for training and development of competences for innovation.