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While the impacts of innovation, the obstacles and the incentives to innovations successful implementation, have been amply studied in industrialized countries, this subject has been rather neglected in less developed nations.
Therefore, this work has the general objective to describe and confirm the major barriers to innovation which affect innovative activities of SMEs in the Brazilian State of Ceará.
The major paradigm for technological innovation still used today was established by Schumpeter during 1950s (NELSON, 1982). This model is characterized by economic scarcity where ideas, innovation and technologies compete for resources (FRENKEL, 2003).
A vast amount of literature is devoted to the study of innovation in small and medium enterprises, but most of the results are related to barriers of innovation that companies face in developed countries.
In methodological terms, the analysis is based on a survey dataset provided by National Industrial Apprenticeship Service of the Regional Department of Ceará (SENAI) “Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial”. Statistically, we use descriptive statistics and confirmatory factorial analysis.
The analysis of the survey data is based on descriptive statistics and confirmatory factorial analysis using the statistical software package SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 19 for Windows. For the descriptive statistical analysis we have chosen the arithmetic mean of the answers as a measure to describe the overall trend.
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