Escala de orientação para inovação em organizações públicas: estudo exploratório e confirmatório no Brasil e em Portugal

ABSTRACTThe aim of this work was to draw up and validate a guidance scale for innovation (GSI) in public organizations. The study was undertaken at 10 Brazilian and 18 Portuguese public organizations. Thirty-two people were interviewed and another 123 filled out a 42-item questionnaire. The data analysis involved exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The validated scale contains 19 items divided into two main factors: a learning stimulation environment, with eight items, and competence management and external environment monitoring, with 11. It was described the process of building and validating the scale and discussed the main results