Science,Technology and Innovation Management: Contributions to a Methodological Framework

The article discusses the specificities of science and technology development and innovation processes in organizational arena and their implications for planning and management. It proposes that ST (2) the profile of the professionals involved and the organizational culture; (3) the collective logic associated with the complexity of nonlinear, dynamic and adaptive systems; and (4) the logic of the scope economies associated with knowledge production. The methodology is applied in a case study of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa.