Open AccessStandardization and regulation barriers to innovation faced by architectural and engineering services companies in Brazil
Author(s) -
Manuel Sousa,
Maria Fatima Ludovico de Almeida
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1826/1/012006
Subject(s) - standardization , business , respondent , work (physics) , government (linguistics) , scale (ratio) , marketing , public relations , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , law
The present work aims to analyze problems and obstacles to innovation faced by architectural and engineering services companies in Brazil, focusing on standardization and regulation issues. We have drawn the data from the National Innovation Survey 2014 (Pintec 2014) to answer how the companies in this sector perceive the importance of problems and obstacles throughout their cycles of innovation concerning difficulties of meeting government regulations, legal or voluntary standards requirements, and accessing specialized technical/technological services. The respondent companies were asked to inform their perceptions of the importance of the barriers that they face to innovate in a three-point response scale (high, medium, and low importance or not relevant).