Políticas públicas para inovação: um estudo da metodologia de gestão da inovação na indústria em Alagoas

The importance of innovation management is growing in the context of public policy development. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the use of public policy instruments for innovation and Innovation Management (IM) in the industrial sector of the state of Alagoas. Specifically, it aims to analyze the performance of industries in relation to the development of an IM methodology, examine the maturity of industrial companies in relation to IM practices, and map the public policy instruments accessed by these industries. For that purpose, exploratory and descriptive research was used, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. The study was conducted with 19 (nineteen) industries participating in the IM project, with industries as research units. Regarding the results, the participation in the project and the IM methodology used enabled new practices in the studied units. It was identified that there is an indirect relationship between access to public policy instruments and IM in companies. It was also found that the project contributed to the understanding of the importance of IM.  Finally, the results showed that the access of industries to public policy instruments in the   nineteen companies surveyed is limited, since only three used the instruments mentioned.