Análise das atividades ligadas a inovação social do centro vocacional tecnológico do Parque Tecnológico de Sergipe

Abstract

The theme of social innovation has been gaining prominence in the academic and organizational media in an attempt to understand social innovation as a response of social actors to their aspirations, needs, and problems that are devoid of a solution by the state. The literature presents a diversity of models for analysis of social innovation of organizations that aim to restructure their way of social action. In this sense, the State of Sergipe counts on the Technological Park and this in turn, created the Technological Vocational Center, whose objective is to attend to the varied demands of the population of the surroundings of SERGIPETEC regarding social actions among them to the technological qualification of the population. This research had the objective of analyzing the activities related to social innovation in the CVT of the Sergipe Technology Park (SERGIPETEC), based on the review of the main models formulated in Literature. Methodologically, this research carried out a case study, with a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory approach. A questionnaire was applied to the beneficiaries of CVT social actions and an interview was conducted with the Center's General Coordinator. The results indicated that the main social actions are research with community members to identify the main problems of the community, offer courses, distribute tasks among participants, find solutions to problems and replicate them among others. When comparing the dimensions of the selected models, the model of Tardic and Harrison was identified as the one most aligned with CVT actions. The main challenges are related to the demand for financial resources to maintain or expand the actions, among the main opportunities are the structuring of an innovative model for the development of public schools, among others.