The Innovation That Information Science Proposes

Abstract

Faced with the multiple understandings assumed by different institutions about the concept of Innovation, the need to locate the semantic principles related to this concept was identified, which has ensured that information science (CI) is contemplated by funding agencies in the development of research projects. The objective was to understand the epistemological relationship between innovation and IC in order to construct a semantic indication of both the conceptual compound of innovation according to the logic of the achievement bodies and an indication of what is taken as relevant for funding in development and research by the agency FAPESP (Foundation for the Support of Research of the State of São Paulo, Brazil). It is concluded that since 1992, CI's research projects, subsidized by FAPESP, have had, in a preponderant way, technology (perception of promotion) and interdisciplinarity (communicative efficiency) as determining elements of the relationship of this area with innovation.