A difusão de inovações numa sociedade em rede: o estudo de caso dos alimentos transgênicos no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2002
• Autor(a) principal: Sá, Patricia Riccelli Galante de
• Orientador(a): Pinto, Aluizio Loureiro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Organização e gerência
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/3979

Throughout the industrial era, the introduction of innovations by companies ¿ new technologies, new products ¿ has followed a downstream diffusion model, that is, from the owners of the conception and production means and governmental agents to the market. These innovations frequently brought great benefits to a part of the population, but ended up creating serious social and environmental unbalances. As this Diffusion of Innovations model became more and more successful outside the developed nations, the greater the reaction of social scientists towards the need of calculating the consequences and implementing measures that could provide an equal distribution of the benefits as of the losses generated by this model. What this work aims to show, illustrated by the controversial episode of the introduction of the genetically modified foods in Brazil, is that nowadays the diffusion model should incorporate the existence of an upstream movement, that is, from the organized and informed civil society onto the corporations and governments, which questions the companies¿ goals and production processes and the efficiency of the regulating institutions that are under the pressure of the global capital flow¿s dynamic. It¿s the consumer-citizen putting himself in as an active participant of strategic importance at the center of the conception and diffusion of innovations¿ processes.