Aprendizagem territorial, cooperação e inovação em espaços rurais: o caso da aglomeração ceramista de Eldorado dos Carajás (Pará/Brasil)

Abstract

The paper points out the ability of the ceramic industries in Eldorado dos Carajás, Southeast Pará, regarding to a local productive arrangement formation, in order to boost its outcomes for the improvement of local economic development indices. Therefore, this work by reasoning the evolutionary school background, which sees the cooperation as facilitators of learning, generation and dissemination of technological innovations as crucial for socio-economic development. In this sense, it was made a field research with surveys and the data were processed with statistical techniques of descriptive and multivariate analysis, whose purpose was to detect and identify underlying factors able to influence the possibilities of the companies reach a higher or lesser degree of inter-organizational integration and group companies in sets with homogeneous behavior patterns. The analysis showed extremely low indicators in the dimensions of learning and innovation, and null indicators in cooperation dimension. As well, these companies exhibited reduced levels of performance. These results are disappointing when considering the possibility of structuring a dynamic productive arrangement, the innovative character and which may give rise to a local innovation system.