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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / Article on Innovation | | Portuguese term or phrase: como a própria nação, indústria, manufatura ou gênero industrial | Having problems making this sentence 'flow'. It's from an article on innovation in Brazilian companies. It's to US English. Thanks for your help!
"Moreira e Queiroz (2007) alertam sobre a dificuldade de sistematizar os objetos de estudos nas ciências sociais aplicadas e, particularmente, no campo da administração de empresas, no qual as pesquisas em inovação se inserem. Enfatizam que os estudos de inovação constituem um complexo campo de pesquisa, com diversas ramificações e especializações, mas que ganharam forte impulso nas duas últimas décadas. Mesmo assim, estes autores afirmam que o entendimento do comportamento inovador nas empresas ainda é bastante limitado e que as pesquisas sobre inovação têm apresentado resultados pouco conclusivos (p. 16).
Ainda segundo Moreira e Queiroz (2007), as pesquisas sobre inovação podem ser agrupadas em dois grandes grupos: pesquisas realizadas em níveis maiores de agregados, ***como a própria nação, indústria, manufatura ou gênero industrial***, e pesquisas realizadas em nível da empresa individual, nas quais a unidade de análise é uma determinada empresa ou um pequeno conjunto de empresas de um mesmo setor." |
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| | English translation:such as for the nation, the ind sector as a whole, mfg activities in gen or a specific mfg/ind activ | Explanation:
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Still according to Moreira and Queiroz (2007), innovation studies can be grouped into two broad categories: research conducted at higher levels of aggregation, such as for the nation, the industrial sector as a whole, manufacturing activities in general or a specific manufacturing/industrial activity, and research performed at the level of the individual firm, in which case the unit of analysis is a given firm or a small group of firms in the same sector.
Note that, in the innovation literature, manufacturing and industrial are often used interchangeably - despite the practice not always being justifiable. |
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As explanation, I have included a translation of the sentence:
Still according to Moreira and Queiroz (2007), innovation studies can be grouped into two broad categories: research conducted at higher levels of aggregation, such as for the nation, the industrial sector as a whole, manufacturing activities in general or a specific manufacturing/industrial activity, and research performed at the level of the individual firm, in which case the unit of analysis is a given firm or a small group of firms in the same sector.
Note that, in the innovation literature, manufacturing and industrial are often used interchangeably - despite the practice not always being justifiable.
| Sheryle Oliver
Brazil
Local time: 21:46
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Native speaker of:  English
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