As Empresas de pesca no estado do Pará e suas atividades inovativas

Abstract

The industrial sector in the state of Pará was established over a long period of decades and is responsible for generating employment and income. Given an increasing demand for fish consumption in Brazil and worldwide, an innovation as a strategic measure to maintain competitive advantage in the market. The benefits of technological changes provide a new way of doing things, the search for new perspectives along with technological interactions and human development. To carry out this work as interviews, it is possible to obtain some agents from the sector (Municipal Secretaries of Fisheries, Presidents of Indicators and Statistics). After interviews in the industries that receive and collaborate with a survey. Heads of quality control, heads of sales, production managers and some entrepreneurs were interviewed. In this context, the object of this research was to understand the innovative strategies of fishing companies in the state of Pará, analyzing, the internalization of the culture of innovation in companies and their adaptation and survival strategies. Based on theorists who discuss innovation and embedding historical elements of support in the discussion. Thus, the basic question of the research is to verify the possible innovative process that the industries have been carrying out, and what are the obstacles for this transformation to happen. The discussion about the innovation of the fishing industries in Pará brings to light the need to stimulate the new organizational profile, given the uniqueness that the sector has in the Amazon and the limitations brought about by overfishing (reduction of fishing stocks). These fishing industries have made little progress in generating technological innovations, and the innovative strategies found aim to meet the legislative requirements of National and International Sanitary Inspection, demonstrated by the constant adjustments of the quality control of the industries, the regular adaptations to meet the sanitary measures of the Asian and North American countries, its main customers.